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Firefox to Show Ads in Empty New Tab Page Tiles

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

• New Poll Suggestion... New Poll Suggestion... (Score: 1) by DECbot on Monday March 24 2014, @04:34PM

  by DECbot (832) on Monday March 24 2014, @04:34PM (#20523)

  With Firefox tying advertising directly into the browser, I plan to do the following:

  1. Continue using Firefox. I don't mind the advertisements as a means of supporting Mozilla.
  2. Switch to Chrome. Google is a benevolent evil.
  3. Switch to Safari. I like Apple's groomed garden.
  4. Switch to IE. Because I hate myself.
  5. Switch to Iceweasel, Swiftfox, SeaMonkey, Konqueror, Midori, Epiphany, or some other browser listed below.
  6. I've been switching to Opera for years, now I have a reason to not come back.
  7. I use lynx, you insensitive clod
  8. Telnet to port 80

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  • cats~$ sudo su
  • cats~# chown -R us /home/base

• Re:New Poll Suggestion... (Score: 2, Funny) by gishzida on Monday March 24 2014, @04:45PM

  by gishzida (2870) on Monday March 24 2014, @04:45PM (#20535) Journal

  Where's the LaminatorX option?

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• Re:New Poll Suggestion... (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @05:10PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @05:10PM (#20556)

  Needs a "going back to gopher" option.

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• Re:New Poll Suggestion... (Score: 2) by buswolley on Monday March 24 2014, @05:31PM

  by buswolley (848) on Monday March 24 2014, @05:31PM (#20576)

  How about, "I will continue to to use 3-5 different browsers, randomly chosen at each session"

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  subicular junctures

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• OT: Your .sig OT: Your .sig (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @05:40PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @05:40PM (#20578)

  cats~$ sudo su

  Is the redundancy supposed to be a joke? For the love of all that is sane... either use what some now regard as "best practise" and use sudo or ditch it and use su. Recalling a time when there was a vulnerability announcement on the program every other week, I've never installed or used sudo on my personal machines.

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  • Re:OT: Your .sig (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @07:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @07:22AM (#22458)

    What, you use su? That is foolish, delete it ASAP, you never know what can happen. Just use ssh root@localhost instead.

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• Re:New Poll Suggestion... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @06:37PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @06:37PM (#20616)

  I use Sleipnir you insensitive clod

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• Re:New Poll Suggestion... (Score: 2) by TK on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:22AM

  by TK (2760) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:22AM (#21475)

  Needs another option, roughly:

  I'll make my own fork, with blackjack and hookers.

  Maybe it could be called AltFireFox, or SoylentFox...

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  The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum

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