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Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by Barrin92 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:16AM (#28784791)
also while we're on the topic of dark patterns, the cards, the sponsored backgrounds and the crypto crap seem to be curiously enough the only settings that don't sync. on every machine you have to turn it all off manually again.
Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by prawnsalad on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:50AM (#28785037)
Not to mention they got caught rewriting your URLs to add their own affiliate codes, which is even worse than traditional tracking imo.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-browser-brave-busted-f...

Re:Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions by ash on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:53AM (#28785571)
Please note they said it was a mistake which was quickly fixed. Bugs happen.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201

https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/