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Firefox to Show Ads in Empty New Tab Page Tiles

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @03:08PM   
from the gotta-pay-for-it-somehow dept.

Magic Oddball writes:

"Mozilla's new VP of Content posted an announcement to his blog stating that sometime in the presumably-near future, "sponsored content" will begin appearing in the unused tiles on Firefox's New Tab Page. It will be rolled out first to desktop Firefox, then mobile and FirefoxOS. AdAge: "Mozilla hasn't made a final decision on how to treat third-party tracking technologies, but Mr. Herman said it is investigating solutions such as unique identifiers from Apple and Google as well as other third parties."

DigitalTrends pointed out, "if the scheme proves lucrative, it may be hard to resist rolling them out to all users in some shape or form" and TechCrunch feels it's a trial 'to see how users react before pushing promoted tiles to all users in their new tab pages.'"

• Re:Enough bitching, who here donated?(Score: 2, Insightful) by TheGratefulNet on Monday March 24 2014, @08:41PM

  by TheGratefulNet (659) on Monday March 24 2014, @08:41PM (#20674)

  I'm not donating to mozilla. they already get MORE than they need from google.

  yes, google bankrolls them.

  and so, this is probably google's doing, under the covers.

  mozilla has sold out. we knew it would happen someday. everything grows in size, then they become evil. mozilla is well on its way to being evil.

  time to try one of the forks. if the forks suck, I'll have to try a spoon, then.

  --
  "It is now safe to switch off your computer."

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