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Firefox to Show Ads in Empty New Tab Page Tiles

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @04:08PM   Printer-friendly
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.'"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by pshuke on Monday March 24 2014, @04:28PM

    by pshuke (3629) on Monday March 24 2014, @04:28PM (#20518)

    I figure forks and semi-forks like IceCat will still be around to make more sensible choices than Mozilla does. Otherwise it's w3m for me.

  • (Score: 1) by guises on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:37PM

    by guises (3116) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:37PM (#21177)

    I use Pale Moon, a Firefox fork that I rather like. Even if that stops being an option, there's always Konqueror - no need to give up on the graphical web entirely.