TechTakes

There certainly are users, both on Windows and Linux who do "hack out" these things. With Firefox it can range from just going through the small hassle of unticking the sponsor option in settings to making forks like the LibreWolf which people seem to like. When the Ubuntu Amazon thing was ongoing I recall people switching desktop environments and even distros in protest and for Windows I know people who hunt elusive enterprise only versions or even Chinese market editions of the OS to avoid the ads.

I usually appreciate it when distros avoid fucking with the upstream versions of the software they package, so in the occasional case like this where the upstream decides to ship a shitty "feature" I would actually prefer being patched out by the distro package maintainers, I don't mind accepting the responsibility of just turning off the setting or compiling a fork on my own if necessary.