Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to Switch to Firefox

Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by robobro on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:28AM (#38430174)

Weird, I don't see adds on my Firefox new tab screen. Maybe you accidentally checked ``Sponsored shortcuts" ? :-)

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by martius on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:31AM (#38430195)

I believe it also depends on your location. I only see sponsored tiles when traveling in some countries.

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by vasvae3 on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:32AM (#38430211)

"Sponsored shortcuts" comes enabled by default, at least on Windows builds made by Mozilla. If you are using Linux I suppose your distro turns it off by default?

btw in my case it adds two ads: Nike and Amazon. They come with tracking parameters that are unique to me (if I create a new browser profile, they change)

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by squarefoot on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:37AM (#38430249)

Disabling them is one click away, however.

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:32AM (#38432632)

I'm going to be pedantic and point out that it's two clicks if we count the one to pull up the settings pane in the first place

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