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by bscphil 1353 days ago
Switching to Firefox means accepting ads built-in to the browser, something that (AFAIK) Google has never done. You can, I suppose, go find the settings one by one and disable all the places they appear, but Mozilla can (and has) introduced new on-by-default ads with version upgrades, so that only lasts so long as your current browser version is supported.

I mean, sure it's great that ad blockers still work, but let's not pretend that Firefox is some kind of bastion of pro-user sentiment.
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dont__panic 1353 days ago
Absolutely true. That's why I use Librewolf. I can control updates when I want them via my system package manager. The developers don't really maintain a separate browser from firefox, just a distribution that removes Mozilla trackers and a few user hostile decisions (like those ads). Works very well for me!
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cetahfh14615 1352 days ago
> You can, I suppose, go find the settings one by one and disable all the places they appear

It's like one setting in about:config

> Switching to Firefox means accepting ads built-in to the browser, something that (AFAIK) Google has never done

Google might not build ads into the browser, but if you use it as they intend and log into the account all of your activity gets tied to your account. I would rather have pocket then not be able to sign into a google account without google signing it in across the browser

> I mean, sure it's great that ad blockers still work, but let's not pretend that Firefox is some kind of bastion of pro-user sentiment.

Yeah mozilla has a shitty track record I'll admit and firefox is a lower quality product, but at the end of the day it's still the lesser of two evils

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bscphil 1352 days ago
> It's like one setting in about:config

Oh really, which one?

> at the end of the day it's still the lesser of two evils

Never said it wasn't.

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cetahfh14615 1352 days ago
extensions.pocket.enabled
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bscphil 1351 days ago
Exactly - pocket is only one source of ads at this point. They keep adding them from different sources. I've actually compiled Firefox without Pocket for years now, and I still got ads in the browser after an update.
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