Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has announced plans to launch a feature called "Suggested Tiles," which will provide sponsored recommendations to visit certain websites when other websites show up in the user's new tab page. The tiles will begin to show up for beta channel users next week, and the company is asking for feedback. For testing purposes, users will only see Suggested Tiles "promoting Firefox for Android, Firefox Marketplace, and other Mozilla causes." It's not yet known what websites will show up on the tiles when the feature launches later this summer. The company says, "With Suggested Tiles, we want to show the world that it is possible to do relevant advertising and content recommendations while still respecting users’ privacy and giving them control over their data."

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This is the last fucking straw

[Anonymous Coward]

Why? Why do you rape us with this kind of shit? Is fucking with the UI (making the goddamn options menu a ugly mess of a webpage) and adding DRM codecs not enough?

Jesus christ on a stick. You can't find a way to suicide your market share faster.

Re:bye

[Anonymous Coward]

a little harsh when all you need to do is change preference in about:config:

browser.newtab.url to about:blank

done and done. the whole 'smart' newtab page is gone for good. that is one of the very nice things about firefox....... configurability..