this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2023
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WTF @firefox?!?!

Why am I getting sponsored content on my free browser (and I mean free as in freedom)

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[–] lionel@lemmy.coupou.fr 8 points 2 years ago

Well, Firefox is free as in freedom but also free as in free beer, the money has to come from somewhere I suppose. At least it doesn't come from selling absolutely everything possible from your data as in other browsers.

[–] RussoBusso@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

You can turn them off in settings luckily.

[–] digidali@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

If you pin Google, its okay to serve you ads.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

yeah they have done this for a while, it's bad, but still best browser on the market... Really says something about the market I think.

[–] rk96@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Because google is responsible for 90% or so og mozillas income, I am also not quite happy about it, but mozilla needs income from something, I assume that they are also not happy with google, that's why they started deploying paid services like a vpn, and firefox relay