| ▲ | ImJamal 6 hours ago |
| > Firefox does not block: > Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers > Sponsored content on the Firefox Home or New Tab page So block ads unless it impacts their revenue sources. |
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| ▲ | pmkary 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Ads are bad! Blocking ads on our own homepage? How do you expect us to keep the lights on? |
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| ▲ | WarmWash 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The correct way to avoid ads is to not visit pages that use them. |
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| ▲ | pessimizer an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | That's the same way I avoid bad movies. I watch them first, before I watch them, just to make sure they're good. | |
| ▲ | JacobKfromIRC 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is this actually feasible? How do you tell when a page uses ads? How do you find pages without ads when you search for something? |
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| ▲ | lakkal 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Sponsored content on the Firefox Home or New Tab page Not ideal, but (at least on desktop) you can set the Home page to a blank page, and there is an extension called 'Blank New Tab' that I've been using for quite a while. |
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| ▲ | NicuCalcea 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > You can manage the sponsored content on the Firefox Home and New Tab page in your Homepage settings. |
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| ▲ | rvz 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Mozilla knows not to bite Google’s hand, who is the one that actually feeds them hundreds of millions of dollars. |
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| ▲ | charcircuit 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Mozilla is the one who is funneling billions of dollars worth of traffic to Google. | | |
| ▲ | EbNar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | So, is Mozilla promoting a search engine monoculture? Yeah, "Google bad, but..." | | |
| ▲ | charcircuit an hour ago | parent [-] | | Or is Google the best at monetizing queries and Mozilla is using whoever is best at doing it. |
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| ▲ | rvz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Google's only reason for keeping Mozilla on life support is to avoid the argument of being a total and complete browser monopoly. Firefox's global traffic market share is less than double digits [0] and is less than 5%. Google technically doesn't need traffic from Firefox and Google is roughly paying half a billion ($585M) a year for it. [1] [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share [1] https://stateof.mozilla.org/pdf/Mozilla%20Fdn%202024%20-%20A... | | |
| ▲ | charcircuit an hour ago | parent [-] | | This doesn't make sense as Edge is a bigger browser than Firefox and competes with Google in the browser space. What Google pays for the traffic is less than what the traffic is worth (Google profits a lot too). |
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| ▲ | llm_nerd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This feels like a place where the "yet you also participate in society" comic fits. |
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| ▲ | add-sub-mul-div 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It doesn't have those limitations on Windows or Android, so it must be an Apple requirement or limitation. |
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| ▲ | smallerize 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Easylist does not block those things on any platforms. I'm not aware of any adblockers that can block the ads on the built-in New Tab page. (You can just disable them in settings anyway.) |
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| ▲ | eviks 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "better than nothing" |
