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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?

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[–] zante@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Either that or they go bankrupt. Design your own browser and give it out for free if you don't like it

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A for profit company is not a charity

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Their profit motive is capped by their only shareholder being a non-profit.

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Honestly, I don't care. I don't even look at that stuff, I just type in the bar thing what I want. Mozilla has to fund the project somehow.

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

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I thought you said "What's next, a few ads in the URL bar?" ...because Mozilla has put a few ads in the URL bar.

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[–] lowleveldata@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

How do you get this? My home page just has some recent links

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago
[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why is this an issue ??

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

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Don't give them any ideas

[–] Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] TxTechnician@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think the best viable option for them is to either offer a subscription model. Or increase requests for donations.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

what would a subscription even do?

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