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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.'"

• Re:Enough bitching, who here donated? Re:Enough bitching, who here donated? (Score: 4, Insightful) by d on Monday March 24 2014, @04:59PM

  by d (523) on Monday March 24 2014, @04:59PM (#20545)

  And here's my second thought - why hadn't anyone thought of just maintaining a fork of the program?

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• Re:Enough bitching, who here donated? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @10:49PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @10:49PM (#20709)

  a fork[...]?

  Iceweasel? IceCat? Abrowser?
  (Swiftfox development stopped at 3.6.x.)

  ...then there's SeaMonkey/IceApe.
  (Using the suite here since 2002.)

  -- gewg_

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