• umbrellacloud@leminal.space
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    9 hours 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.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

    • blind3rdeye@aussie.zone
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      9 hours ago

      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.)