I say let them cook a little, they arent drowning in donations and still do a tone of things for foss communities.

Let's remember that the de fuckto market (ie pleb) alternative is overwhelmingly Chrome.

We dont need such projects just so we as individuals can have privacy focused experiences but also for how that influences markets and society. And to have any influence you need certain power of masses.

The browser itself is free, and they have to make money somehow to keep the company running (if the CEO didn't keep most of it for themself). If you don't like it, you can turn it off or download an ad-free fork.

Personaly those shortcuts are a feature I literally never use so much so I don't even register their existence anymore.

Can't you remove those?

Yeah but you can literally just turn this off with no fuss.

1.Firefox for Android.

2.Tap the menu button.

3.Tap. Settings.

4.Tap Homepage.

5.Deselect Sponsored shortcuts under Shortcuts.

If we want software to be FOSS we have to stop bitching so much about developers trying to make the math work.

This was a bug

And looks like it's been fixed :)

Then turn it off?

There are some more privacy friendly forks of "Firefox for Android", which have sponsored shortcuts disabled or minimized by default. For example:

• https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild
• https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Feel free to give them a try :)

If they make some money from harmless icons, I mean, I can live with it

So how exactly were you planning on them making money if they don’t take money from Google to be the default search engine and they don’t take money to place advertisements on the default home page?

@UltraGiGaGigantic Sorry about that, not quite what is expected to happen. I understand that it has been looked into and has now been resolved.

#fxhelp

These can be turned off. Not great that they’re on by default, but you gotta pay the bills somehow right?

This has been the case for several years. Super easy to turn them off

See ads, "how dare they" Sees paid version, "how dare they" Development costs time and money, pick your poison.

Better than the unlabeled sponsorship behind the default search engine.

This is why I torrent firefox pro using Limewire.

I think the downvoters can’t hold these two thoughts in their mind at the same time:

1. Firefox is the best browser.
2. Firefox has serious problems because Mozilla is a terrible steward of it.

The best thing about this is that you can turn it off

Skill issue

someone on lemmy has a bit of a hateboner for mozilla.

Just turn it off. If they don't have income they don't exist.

Seems fine to me, they need to make money somehow.

Ads are one thing, but this seems excessive and probably unintentional. Looks like someone just filed this bug, which is another sign that it might be an unintentional problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944704

Honestly, I don't care. I don't even look at that stuff, I just type in the bar thing what I want. Mozilla has to fund the project somehow.