Sponsored Top Sites with Firefox 83

Re:Sponsored Top Sites with Firefox 83 by djsumdog on Saturday November 21, 2020 @03:51PM (#25172668)

Mozilla stands for less and less of what it did back in University when they first released "Firebird" from reworking the old Netscape/Mozilla source.

I hate that there are only two major web engines now.

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Re:Sponsored Top Sites with Firefox 83 by OneLeggedCat on Saturday November 21, 2020 @04:54PM (#25173020)

I wish they'd at least quit being sneaky about stuff like this. This wasn't mentioned in the release notes at all. Just a section inside the privacy section of the knowledge base.

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Re:Sponsored Top Sites with Firefox 83 by Gaelan on Saturday November 21, 2020 @06:44PM (#25173591)

There are three, Webkit, Blink, and Gecko. Blink is a Webkit derivative but they've been developed separately for years now.

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Re:Sponsored Top Sites with Firefox 83 by wodenokoto on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:05PM (#25181961)

I don't understand why people think using Google as your advertisement middle-man is so much more righteous than doing the advertisement yourself.

Mozilla has been taking money for giving Google access to advertise to its users since at least 2004

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing

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Re:Sponsored Top Sites with Firefox 83 by ohgodplsno on Saturday November 21, 2020 @04:00PM (#25172722)

Right, because the default behavior of sending all default searches (and therefore, data) to Google is so much better. Mozilla's entire existence being beholden to Google being afraid of being sued is so much better.

It's not a perfect solution. But Mozilla moving away from being dependent on Google is the best they can do. And it can entirely be disabled.

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