I could care less about the personal beliefs of the creator if the product works as intended, especially if funding the creator is optional
Persistent and unavoidable ads are the reason I don’t use original Firefox, so it’s the reason I don’t use Brave anymore. There were other issues too, and although it’s supposedly open source, the Palantir connection is shadier than their Prop 8 connection, which I don’t even consider that relevant since it was so long ago
No, I mean the ads which are permanently pinned to the startpage. Of course I use uBlock Origin with Firefox forks, as most people do, but that doesn’t prevent the pinned ads from appearing in the startpage, at least not for me.
Firefox does have ads on by default for the startpage, but they can be turned off in the settings in a fairly easy and obvious way. So even as obnoxious and demoralising ads, I don’t think it is fair to say these ones are “persistent and unavoidable”. (It’s not easy to remove the Firefox logo from the new tab page, and that annoys me, but I wouldn’t call it an ad.)
I could care less about the personal beliefs of the creator if the product works as intended, especially if funding the creator is optional
Persistent and unavoidable ads are the reason I don’t use original Firefox, so it’s the reason I don’t use Brave anymore. There were other issues too, and although it’s supposedly open source, the Palantir connection is shadier than their Prop 8 connection, which I don’t even consider that relevant since it was so long ago
Why are you not using uBlock Origin?
No, I mean the ads which are permanently pinned to the startpage. Of course I use uBlock Origin with Firefox forks, as most people do, but that doesn’t prevent the pinned ads from appearing in the startpage, at least not for me.
Why don’t|you set it to open new tabs with a blank page? I have that as my setting and I forgot there were even ads on the start page.
Yeah, I guess I could do that, but aside from that, it is resource-intensive compared to forks.
Firefox does have ads on by default for the startpage, but they can be turned off in the settings in a fairly easy and obvious way. So even as obnoxious and demoralising ads, I don’t think it is fair to say these ones are “persistent and unavoidable”. (It’s not easy to remove the Firefox logo from the new tab page, and that annoys me, but I wouldn’t call it an ad.)
Well, I’m dumb and lazy, I don’t want to have to do a bunch of shit I guess.