The browser itself is free, and they have to make money somehow to keep the company running (if the CEO didn’t keep most of it for themself). If you don’t like it, you can turn it off or download an ad-free fork.

Can’t you remove those?

If we want software to be FOSS we have to stop bitching so much about developers trying to make the math work.

Yeah but you can literally just turn this off with no fuss.

1.Firefox for Android.

2.Tap the menu button.

3.Tap. Settings.

4.Tap Homepage.

5.Deselect Sponsored shortcuts under Shortcuts.

This was a bug

And looks like it’s been fixed :)

Breaking news: Businesses need to make money, more at 11

So how exactly were you planning on them making money if they don’t take money from Google to be the default search engine and they don’t take money to place advertisements on the default home page?

The best thing about this is that you can turn it off

Seems fine to me, they need to make money somehow.

Why is this an issue ??

Meanwhile Let’s discuss on how we can make Mozilla Great again (as in independent)

Almost all the links in my front homepage are sponsored now. What’s next, a few ads in the bookmark bar? How about when I enter a URL, I then have to type “McDonald’s” before I can actually navigate there?

Don’t give them new ideas, Sony might jump in and patent that too.

This is why I torrent firefox pro using Limewire.

someone on lemmy has a bit of a hateboner for mozilla.

Then turn it off?

If they make some money from harmless icons, I mean, I can live with it