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Re:Mozilla's New Terms of Use Are Out of Step with Firefox's... by winkelmann on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:00AM (#43194938)
Yeah, it's annoying, but also nothing particularly new I believe. There seem to be two types of garbage links added by default:

1. "Sponsored shortcuts" that can be "easily" turned off in `about:preferences#home`

2. I guess "non-sponsored" shortcuts? I believe they pointed to Facebook, eBay, and something else (Pinterest maybe). Those have to be removed/"blocked" individually. I think they end up in `browser.newtabpage.blocked` after doing so.

I don't like that this is a thing I have to do whenever I set up a new Firefox install. It's not often, to be fair, but it still sucks nonetheless.

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Re:Mozilla's New Terms of Use Are Out of Step with Firefox's... by rightbyte on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:42AM (#43195398)
Ye that feels like trying to unmess a Windows install.

I have like 6 Firefox installs I need to do this on. And then they add the next thing to block in 2 years.

I think the old premade bookmarks are as far as you can go with these kind of things. Takes like 2s to remove and you know how instinctivly.

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