Mozilla deserves to fail. This is absolutely unacceptable, it makes me irrationally angry. I've been using Firefox since 2004, I'm tired of these tactics. We're now playing whack a mole with their settings with things like advertising on the new tab page, user studies (which seems to randomly get re-enabled on updates), and now I need to add an opt out for this specific advertisement in my about:config? How many future advertisements am I going to need to opt out of on an individual basis as they come up? It's akin to what Microsoft is doing with their many toggles required to change the default browser settings.
Even if there were a setting to opt out of everything it would be unacceptable. Might as well use Chromium if they are going to pull this shit. I'm just done with this, Mozilla deserves to fail.
I turned off ads as soon as they added them and have no issues. I'm not sure why everyone is being overly dramatic about this. Furthermore, I subscribe to their relay service, so it pitches a couple bucks a month to them. I vote with my wallet. I don't think everything should be free or lose my mind when I see an annoyance in something that I get a ton of utility out of. The world isn't a perfect place.
I turned off ads and I still saw this ad today. It sounds like this one is behind a new setting.
> I subscribe to their relay service, so it pitches a couple bucks a month to them. I vote with my wallet.
I would love to vote with my wallet. I want to donate to Firefox directly. If they'd given me an option to donate and have the money go to Firefox and not Mozilla's other pet projects, I'd happily have set up a recurring monthly donation for it.
I really like Firefox. I want it to succeed. I really came to dislike the company behind it over the years though. It almost feels like they purposefully worsen Firefox over time in order to serve the desires of their benefactors at Google.
Even if there were a setting to opt out of everything it would be unacceptable. Might as well use Chromium if they are going to pull this shit. I'm just done with this, Mozilla deserves to fail.