“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”

Re:“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar” by dralley on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:51AM (#28787042)

I don't honestly think it matters. They're effectively ads in practice regardless of whether they're paid or not.

But I do get the feeling that "Kahoot", a mobile game I've literally never heard of, isn't an organic result.

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Re:“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar” by techrat on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:17PM (#28803703)

I get zero suggestions for that within Google Chrome.

https://i.imgur.com/2uREs6u.png

I think it may be your own history popping up there.

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Re:“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar” by anonymousab on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:42PM (#28814009)

I think there's some weird A/B test shenanigans going on with this one. I have a machine where some letters or whole words will get google search results and ads with images in the first few entries of the dropdown, but on my main machine it's just google searches and then history/bookmarks at the bottom.

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Re:“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar” by dralley on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:48AM (#28818843)

It's not my own history because I have no history, I use Chrome exclusively for things that are completely broken on Firefox, which is mostly just 1 or 2 google websites.

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Re:“looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar” by SCLeo on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:56PM (#28868425)

Yeah, I think it might be A/B testing as well. I don't get any suggestions from typing K. Everything that popped up is from my history.

Also, not really related, but from my experience, Kahoot is really popular in education. I bet at least 80% of my classmates in college have used it at least once. I am a bit surprised you never heard about it.

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