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Firefox: Sponsors on the home page and New Tab page (support.mozilla.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Are you for fucking real?

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[–] 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, this is ancient news and takes all of 8 seconds to permanently disable.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Or you can just switch to LibreWolf and get no ads and no tracking, the way Mozilla was supposed to be

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    firefox extensions still work fine?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Most of them.

    LibreWolf is literally just the FireFox build, with the telemetry & adware ripped out, and ublock origin and similar preinstalled. (I suspect people that downvoted me above assume I am shilling some commercial browser and just don't know what LW is)

    I ran into a problem with Video Download Helper, it installs a co-app that had "~/.firefox" hardcoded in a script. I changed that to point to LibreWolf and it worked.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    aah, a good old load-bearing "just" with all the trimmings

    love it when a post tells you how much experience someone has in large-scale software and systems management (and thus also how seriously to take their advice)

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