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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: 2) by edIII on Monday March 24 2014, @05:50PM

    by edIII (791) on Monday March 24 2014, @05:50PM (#20588)

    Chrome really is a superior browser though. I have to use IE/Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera every day to make sure there are no bugs and a relatively consistent browsing experience.

    Chrome has been by far the most stable, most responsive, and also, the most correct rendering engine.

    I understand the resistance towards Chrome completely, which is why there is the alternative: Chromium.

    All the good parts of Chrome and none of the tracking bullshit.

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  • (Score: 2) by TK on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:15AM

    by TK (2760) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:15AM (#21470)

    Does Chrome/Chromium have noscript (or a clone) yet? That's kind of a sticking point for a lot of people here.

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