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I just installed and ran Firefox. I was presented with a page of ads:

https://i.imgur.com/HiS8k1L.png

Note that the "top sites" aren't my top sites. They're ads. And then there's an ad at the bottom.



They could also show nothing.. Seems fairly harmless to me.

But yes, it would be awesome if we could pay for an ad-free Firefox built by Mozilla.


Unless you're personally donating large sums of money to Mozilla, you need to stop whining about their innocuous, non-spyware ads that are easily removed.

Your alternative isn't some hypothetical "pure" browser. Your choices are Microsoft spyware, Google spyware, or presumably some Chinese spyware. Or Firefox, imperfect though it may be.

There are now only two viable rendering engines left in the browser world, and Firefox Gecko is one of them.


I wasn't whining about it. I was just pointing out that the people saying "Micrsoft is evil! Use Firefox" aren't telling the whole story.

I don't mind either ad. Both are easily removed.




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