Mozilla Announces Plans to Play Ads in Firefox Browser

[eriko]

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

Ok call my 65yr old mother and guide her through it....

 

[pilsner]

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.

Open new tab. See the little symbol (9 small squares) in the top right corner? Click it. Gone. No more "new tab" page, instead you will see an empty one.And if you actually USE the browser and want to use the new tab page to show your favourite websites, you won't see the ads anyway, as they explained.

 

[egilbe]

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

I never see ads. Even on Tom's

 

[soccerplayer88]

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

I never see ads. Even on Tom's

I was about to say, I haven't seen an ad on the internet in years.And like others have already pointed out, there are numerous ways to avoid these ads.

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)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-tab-page-show-hide-and-customize-top-sites

Using the internet is hard stuff.

 

[JohnUSA]

When evil and selfish Mozilla does this reprehensible act I will uninstall this browser in a nanosecond and never ever use it again.Go to hell Mozilla.

 

[stevejnb]

Yikes... Remind me to never offer a free service, and after a decade of offering it, try and do *anything* to help cover costs that will even mildly irritate the freeloaders who have been using said surface for the past ten years. That'll make me a evil profit mongering monster who is doing entirely unreasonable things to the users of my free service. They'll be entirely justified in their move to Chrome, which will treat them much better from an advertising standpoint.

 

[egilbe]

Yikes... Remind me to never offer a free service, and after a decade of offering it, try and do *anything* to help cover costs that will even mildly irritate the freeloaders who have been using said surface for the past ten years. That'll make me a evil profit mongering monster who is doing entirely unreasonable things to the users of my free service. They'll be entirely justified in their move to Chrome, which will treat them much better from an advertising standpoint.

Where's my laffy smiley face? XD

 

[stevejnb]

No, no. I'm SUPER serious. No smiley face for you.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Yikes... Remind me to never offer a free service, and after a decade of offering it, try and do *anything* to help cover costs that will even mildly irritate the freeloaders who have been using said surface for the past ten years. That'll make me a evil profit mongering monster who is doing entirely unreasonable things to the users of my free service. They'll be entirely justified in their move to Chrome, which will treat them much better from an advertising standpoint.

I stick with IE, since I paid for Windows which it comes with I don't think MS will need to do that. Plus IE11, FF and Chrome XX whatever are all about just as fast and just as secure if used properly (which I know how to).

That said, my issue is that they will track you without your want and as well they will probably be using an ad service, meaning one that gives those crap links that contain viruses. This as well means new security holes and vulnerabilities.

FF was one of the better browsers because it was secure, more than IE versions older than 9 since those used the very vulnerable ActiveX. But with this comes new issues and holes that will make it worse.

I am fine with them trying to make up the costs, then again they do say "Proudly non-profit" on their website so yea.....

 

[nonoitall]

What's with all the talk about tracking and security holes? The current new tab page shows anchor links with thumbnails that you can click to go to a page in your history. There's not really any active content, and I see no reason why this would have to change when they put ads on it - just some predefined thumbnails and link URLs to fill the empty space until the user does. I'd imagine if you choose to click the ads, they probably will have a referral in the URL so the site in question knows that it was Mozilla who sent you there, but that's pretty innocuous.

Unsubstantiated speculation is making this sound a lot worse than the facts thus far indicate.