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I love the new sponsored clickbait in my firefox start page (feddit.it)

submitted 11 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Wow, that's awesome! I was very sad without the clickbait articles. I was staring at Firefox thinking "i wish it had a cluttered start page with clickbait articles and sponsored content like MS Edge" - and then with this new update the devs nailed it! Thanks!

That's really perfect!

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 52 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Maybe more people will join me in thinking that the best thing to do is to set browser.newtabpage.enabled=false and otherwise fiddle with the settings until it just shows you nothing but a blank page in a nice colour when you open a new tab or window.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just have an empty new tab page. There is no need to use about:config to set this setting. The Firefox > Settings > Home the homepage for new windows or new tabs separately. At least the recent activity for Visited pages is useful for new window. I highly recommend to Sponsored Shortcuts, which is an alternative term for advertisement. Or just turn off the Firefox Home for newtabs by setting it to Blank Page.

[–] electro1 -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

I wasn't talking about the technical implementation or differences in how they are handled, but more of a personal judgement. To me every Sponsored link is an advertisement, everywhere, not only in Firefox.

[–] Tyoda@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is part of my new setup ritual right along uBlock, DDG, and more. Shame that this is the best choice we have for a browser.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

Just turn them off in settings. Lots of options there, no need to sod around with configs and what have you.