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."

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Re:I have always hated the "New Tab" page

[Anonymous Coward]

This whole argument has been the dumbest thing ever, just not Mozilla's side of the argument. They're making a lot of actual sense, but people don't care: they just want to bitch about their convenience being lessened, and to hell with any counter-arguments (which are plainly ludicrous despite all of the evidence to the contrary). Vocal entitled users really are the worst aspect of Firefox, and have been the #1 factor keeping the browser in the stone ages. We can't have nice things, because Mozilla has to keep supporting your antiquated and often insecure pet features and options, instead of you just making your own addons for them.