[visarga]

Bad idea. I hate even the website icons from the new tab page. They sometimes show sites I don't want to advertise (xxx). They make "new tab" work slower and I never feel inclined to click on them.

Now they are trying to stuff even more slowness inducing ads in the new tab - that means - exactly the moment you wan to to something ELSE.

That's the problem - when you open a tab, you don't really want to see the ads. When you search on Google, you might want to see the ads.