So it seems that #Firefox went ahead and just re-enabled these terrible settings
That's 1 strike for the fox.. One more and it's out
Maybe i should build my own browser and not made of Chromium crap (no offense)
@collectifission Eerste keer dat ik dit zie.. Echt what daa fack
@stux Ach, als ze daardoor wat minder afhankelijk zouden zijn van Google's geld... Maar dat is niet echt zo helaas.
@collectifission @stux Destijds dan denk ik niet opgevallen, of het toen zonder na te denken disabled zonder echt verder te kijken omdat ik hoe dan ook een bloedhekel heb aan rotzooi op mijn scherm wat ik niet nodig heb.
@stux This has been around since 2020: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/11/22/how-to-disable-sponsored-top-sites-in-the-firefox-web-browser/
@stux It’s called their business model.
@aral Doesn't mean I have to like it?
@stux I know that the whole advertisement thing in Firefox is not great.
But honestly, it's still my favourite browser and I want its development to be sustainable.
So I also think that they should experiment with income streams to achieve that.
Thus I'm personally fine if I see stuff like Adidas on the start page as long as it is ethical stuff and I still have the possibility to remove it.
@alexanderadam For sure but it's more about the edit of settings after an update
That makes me lose trust
@stux I understand that and I'm not saying that the current experiments are great.
But apparently nobody has come up with a way of making it sustainable yet.
@stux @alexanderadam how did you update anyway? How was it packaged?
@stux@mstdn.social Je kan dit uitzetten in de settings (gelukkig!)
Maar staat nog helemaal los van het feit, dat dit lichtelijk irritant...
@me Klopt maar het ziet er naar uit dat FF het weer heeft aangezet na de update
@stux@mstdn.social Yeah... Na de update naar 131?
Ik weet niet of dat een bewuste actie is geweest of dat toevallig de settings key voor die optie hernoemd is, waardoor de default waarde van true ingeladen is... Maar gelukkig is Firefox opensource, dus het zou inzichtelijk moeten zijn
@stux meh, a way for Mozilla Corporation to pay for the $7 million CEO https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
At least they didn't turn on 'privacy preserving attribution' by default, or.. https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/mozilla_noyb_privacy_complaint/
@stux
Post google-funing-less firefox...
@stux@mstdn.social Yeah it's shit, you gotta untick the "sponsored shortcuts" thing here (on the settings button). Yes, this should come disabled by default. I guess you could just fork it and make it default but it sounds like more work than just unticking this xd
@stux I had the same, in settings I disabled sponsord links and those ads are gone.
@Rob_T_Firefly That sucks, so every new update you have to disable it again. @stux
@stux One of the many settings I just turned off in the new VM I built.
@devlogic Did something change?
I did not
@stux Oh wait, I just read your alt text. Those got re-enabled on an UPDATE? WTF.
@stux Seems like you can disable it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy
@funguy2playwith @stux That setting has a nasty habit of turning itself back on with future updates. I know this because it's the first setting I reach to disable! Sigh. For shame, Mozilla.
@stux looks like 3 strikes to me
@stux oh dear, that's bad behaviour . Was it an update that reenabled it?
@stux don't do it
@stux At this point Firefox is on life support until something changes. I'm truly sorry that this has happened to Firefox. They are up against huge odds.
@stux you would call it meow meow browser, right?
@stux weird, i just updated and that box was not re-checked for me.
@stux i am switching to https://zen-browser.app/ its open source and basedoin Firefox with tones of bice features. (Vertical tabs, compact mode, split browsing)
@stux You need to go down the jwz rabbit hole... start here: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113246768350299784
This guy is the one that created the XWindows screen saver, and he did work on browsers at one point. (Netscape) It's worth the read
@stux ok, I'm underplaying the netscape connection.
@stux I gave up on Firefox long ago as I think it unsafe.
@stux Oh good, so you can disable this.
I noticed this recently too, I guess it got enabled on the latest Firefox update.
@stux Where do you see this? Because I don't...
And which version is it?
And where are you going to migrate? Yet another chrome-base browser?
@stux https://gitlab.gnome.org/world/navigator is a really great option, but no web extension support as of yet. If not you can go for zen, floorp, or librewolf
@QuadRadical @stux
LibreWolf is nice. WaterFox is my personal fav tho.
I've been told this is a good starting point to have a crack at contributing to UX/UI for a Servo based browser:
https://github.com/versotile-org/verso-panel
@betalars @collectifission @stux @servo Isn't it quite insecure?
@hackillu Servo? Probably, is still pre-alpha.