Mozilla Announces Plans to Play Ads in Firefox Browser

[JMcEntegart]

Mozilla today announced plans to put ads inside its Firefox browser. If you're already a Firefox user, you likely won't see any at all.

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[boogalooelectric]

Looks like its time to switch browsers again. Dammit!

 

[Jake Hall]

STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[voltagetoe]

Going down as a real business. Take a few pennies while you can !!

 

[vittau]

Looks like its time to switch browsers again. Dammit!

Did you even read the text?!Only new users will see it, and only until their tiles aren't filled with their own content. Absolutely zero problems with this.

 

[maxiim]

Looks like its time to switch browsers again. Dammit!

Did you even read the text?!Only new users will see it, and only until their tiles aren't filled with their own content. Absolutely zero problems with this.

Unless you're the kind of user, who has firefox clear history on close. At which point you see those ads on new tabs....all the time.

 

[velocityg4]

Looks like its time to switch browsers again. Dammit!

Did you even read the text?!Only new users will see it, and only until their tiles aren't filled with their own content. Absolutely zero problems with this.

Unless you're the kind of user, who has firefox clear history on close. At which point you see those ads on new tabs....all the time.

In which case set the new tab page to blank. Which I do anyways for speed and not wanting my new tab page showing previews of porn. 😉

I don't even know how often I even see the new tab page. I hardly ever open one then navigate to a site. If I want to see something in a new tab I right click and open in a new tab. For searches I have configured the search bar in about:config to create a new tab when searching automatically. That way I can research something I am reading about more efficiently.

With about:config you'll be able to disable it anyways. I'm sure some add-on will also block it.

 

[Onihikage]

Did anyone here actually read what they're doing? New users with no web history have nothing to fill up those boxes in the New Tab page, so Mozilla is just going to let some ads be put in empty boxes. It's no big deal, doesn't get in anyone's way, and actually makes a good bit of sense.

 

[boogalooelectric]

Looks like its time to switch browsers again. Dammit!

Did you even read the text?!Only new users will see it, and only until their tiles aren't filled with their own content. Absolutely zero problems with this.

I still do not like it. Nor am I thrilled with firefox lately. I AM entitled to my own opinion.

 

[Onihikage]

If you don't like it, set the New Tab page to about:blank.

 

[maxiim]

Looks like its time to switch browsers again. Dammit!

Did you even read the text?!Only new users will see it, and only until their tiles aren't filled with their own content. Absolutely zero problems with this.

Unless you're the kind of user, who has firefox clear history on close. At which point you see those ads on new tabs....all the time.

In which case set the new tab page to blank. Which I do anyways for speed and not wanting my new tab page showing previews of porn. 😉

I don't even know how often I even see the new tab page. I hardly ever open one then navigate to a site. If I want to see something in a new tab I right click and open in a new tab. For searches I have configured the search bar in about:config to create a new tab when searching automatically. That way I can research something I am reading about more efficiently.

With about:config you'll be able to disable it anyways. I'm sure some add-on will also block it.

These things might no pertain to us(hardware/pc enthusiast, or tech savy people in general) exactly, but you have to remember that people that know how to setup their browser like that are in the minority of the browser user population.

 

[quangluu96]

Ad block to the rescue

 

[qlum]

Looks like its time to switch browsers again. Dammit!

Did you even read the text?!Only new users will see it, and only until their tiles aren't filled with their own content. Absolutely zero problems with this.

Unless you're the kind of user, who has firefox clear history on close. At which point you see those ads on new tabs....all the time.

Unless you get an add on to display something else, or maybe move to a firefox fork because that's what you can do on open source stuff. Just like ad block plus got a fork or two after it started allowing some ads and used that to extort sites to pass through the filters.

Sure this is a lot less draconic tthen that but there are already a few firefox forks which may not adopt this stuff at all.

 

[Tomas650]

Ad's being suggested when you first open up a new tab, this can't be. Everyone grab your pitchforks and torches. We must all riot about this. Seriously why is this such a big deal, they go away once you visit enough websites to fill that space up....

 

[SchizoFrog]

Personally I never see the 'tiles' anyway as I set my homepage to 'google.co.uk' and then use 'New Tab Homepage' ad on as soon as I install Firefox.

 

[loosescrews]

Other browsers do this too. Opera for example comes by default with some sponsored links on its speed dial page which is the equivalent to what Mozilla is doing here.

 

[nonoitall]

Did you even read the text?!Only new users will see it, and only until their tiles aren't filled with their own content. Absolutely zero problems with this.

Unless you're the kind of user, who has firefox clear history on close. At which point you see those ads on new tabs....all the time.

And? If you clear history each time Firefox closes, it doesn't sound like the new tab page was much use to you anyway. As far as your usage is concerned, they're replacing one useless page with another. Only the new one makes them a little revenue so at least it's not *completely* useless.

 

[tolham]

and thus the NSA's backdoor is born.

 

[sykozis]

The new one makes them a little revenue, and increases the risk of infection.....yep, always a good idea to intentionally risk the security of your users' computers....

 

[hoofhearted]

I pay for my internet connection. I do not want any of my hard-earned bandwidth wasted on these ads. If I cannot disable this behavior, then bye bye firefox.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Did anyone here actually read what they're doing? New users with no web history have nothing to fill up those boxes in the New Tab page, so Mozilla is just going to let some ads be put in empty boxes. It's no big deal, doesn't get in anyone's way, and actually makes a good bit of sense.

If it is optional, then yes it is fine. If it is not then it is just another way they are going to track and utilize your web history/cookies to sell and make money off of you just like most free web based email services sell your information, including contacts, to make money off of you. I think it is a bad idea because it will mean that even if you disable tracking in FF, FF will still track you to send specific adds to you and then there is the issue of the adds that contain viruses that computer illiterate people will click on.....

 

[sephirothmk]

If i ever see an advert in my browser, I'm gonna hit the uninstall button so hard, the OS will be bruised for days.

 

[digitalvampire]

"ADS ARE INEXCUSABLE!! I'LL JUST LEAVE AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!" ... *glances over to see roughly 15 adds on THIS page

 

[g-unit1111]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[eriko]

Looks like its time to switch browsers again. Dammit!

Did you even read the text?!Only new users will see it, and only until their tiles aren't filled with their own content. Absolutely zero problems with this.

Since we don't login to our Browsers - define a 'new user' please?If I reformat my machine, and install Firefox, I guess that makes me a new user, and then subject to ads...Dam, time to change browser again. (as already said)