WTF @firefox?!?!

Why am I getting sponsored content on my free browser (and I mean free as in freedom)

  • @Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 year ago

    I don’t mind ads (though I turned them off), to me what makes me upset about these sponsored links is that they feel like they’re violating my space. I wasn’t communicated clear terms for them.

    Are they being downloaded from the internet? I didn’t ask you to download ads from the internet. Can they change? Who’s responsible for changing them? I don’t want Google, Amazon and Adidas to have a direct line of communication with my browser. Is that paranoid? Yeah probably, it’s almost certainly updated together with the rest of Firefox, but it wasn’t communicated to me, so it feels violating.
    I’d sooner accept much larger ads if they looked more static. Mozilla probably feels these look pretty static, but they definitely could look more static.

      • @Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 year ago

        Certainly don’t want a pop-up. But the way the layout is designed can help communicate such things. On that same page is a Firefox logo. I really wouldn’t read the Firefox logo as something that is dynamically loaded. So what sets that apart from the sponsored links?