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.'"
(Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Monday March 24 2014, @04:22PM
Guess I'll be switching to SeaMonkey when the new and "improved" Firefox interface drops.
A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mrbluze on Monday March 24 2014, @04:26PM
Agreed. Nothing worse than drive-by downloads built into your browser. What on earth are they thinking?!
Do it yourself, 'cause no one else will do it yourself.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @04:30PM
Yeah I turned that crap off already. It was actually semi annoying. about:config->browser.newtab.url -> yourfavoritestartpagehere... I use google as that is what I am usually opening a new tab for anyway...