Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions

Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by e3bc54b2 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:10AM (#28783927)

And eventually, Mozilla's 'telemetry' will tell them that 95% users never opt out, and that'll justify removing the opt out option entirely.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by roca on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:13AM (#28783947)

There's still a Preferences option to opt out of "Play DRM-controlled content", even though I'm sure <5% of people opt out of that. Some options stick around for the sake of principle.

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by smitop on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:46AM (#28785010)

It's disabled by default. Enabling DRM installs a non-free binary from Google, and the user is prompted to install it when a website attempts to play DRM media: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by msdrigg on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:48AM (#28785527)

I wondered why they set it up like this. TIL

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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by aembleton on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:34AM (#28784512)

That might be just the motivation needed to create a fork.

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