Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles (mozilla.org)

An anonymous reader writes: For some time, Mozilla has been experimenting with advertisements in the "suggested tiles" on new Firefox tabs. They received a lot of criticism from the community for it, and now (using linguistic gymnastics), Mozilla has decided to end that experiment. They say, "We experimented with all content – including advertising. We proved that advertising can be done well while respecting users. We have learned a ton along the way. Our learnings show that users want content that is relevant, exciting and engaging. We want to deliver that type of content experience to our users, and we know that it will take focus and effort to do that right. We have therefore made the decision to stop advertising in Firefox through the Tiles experiment in order to focus on content discovery. We want to thank all the partners who have worked with us on Tiles. Naturally, we will fulfill our current commitments as we wind down this experiment over the next few months."

Comments

Respecting users?

[Anonymous Coward]

Part of me wonders what prompted this change.

Re: Firefox: 8% of the market and dropping.

[kangsterizer]

There's a rewrite in progress, it's called Servo, if you want to check it out, it's actually really cool https://github.com/servo/servo