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Mozilla Says Ad on Firefox's New Tab Page Was Just Another Experiment (venturebeat.com)
Some Firefox users yesterday started seeing an ad in the desktop version of the browser. It offers users a $20 Amazon gift card in return for booking your next hotel stay via Booking.com. VentureBeat reached out to Mozilla, which confirmed the ad was a Firefox experiment and that no user data was being shared with its partners. From a report: The ad appears at the bottom of Firefox's new tab page on the desktop version with a "Find a Hotel" button that takes the user to a Booking.com page. The text reads: "Ready to schedule that next family reunion? Here's a thank you from Firefox. Book your next hotel stay on Booking.com today and get a free $20 Amazon gift card. Happy Holidays from Firefox! (Restrictions apply)." A second version reads: "For the holidays, we got you a little something just for using Firefox! Book your next hotel stay on Booking.com today and get a free $20 Amazon gift card. Happy Holidays from Firefox! (Restrictions apply.)"
Because it is good and it is not controlled by a major tracking firm.
the more "users" "experiment" with quality script and ad blocking.
Keep pushing ads and users will embrace any brand that stops the ads.
People want a browser on their desktop, their cell phone.
Make the browser great again not. Not more ad delivery software.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Do you mean like these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
GNU IceCat looks interesting. I might see how easy/difficult it is to build for the Mac.
Could you post or link your user.js here?
Check out this for user.js -- Firefox configuration hardening tips. I pulled some from here and others from simply Googling "firefox disable ____________" after a new release when some dumb crap -- I mean feature -- was noted in a review somewhere or in the Release Notes.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I bought a Samsung TV 6 weeks ago. This fucker serves me ads every time I change inputs to TV, and when I use the program guide. Really? I don't remember reading that you would serve me ads when I signed the paperwork required to bring this thing home.
The UI sucks ass. Looking at my firewall logs this fucker is like a needy 12 year old girl on the phone to her 30 y/o "boyfriend"
I suspect that by the end of the week I'll be taking my TV off the internet. The plusses I get with having the smart part being smart are way outweighed by the minuses I get having this PoS connected to my network.
tl;dr: don't buy a Samsung TV. It spies on you, shows ads all the time, and on top of that the UI is the worst PoS I've seen since the 90's, when companies rushed to slam GUIs on top of their command line tools.
I created a fork from that. I think it is a little more up to date, includes hardening not done by pyllyukko and blocks all the recent telemetry.
https://gist.github.com/MrYar/...
With all due respect, buying a Smart TV is a dumb move. I realize it's hard to find a dumb TV any more, but it's worth some effort and expense. The "industrial" models for signage and such tend to be the best-made anyway, and they have none of that junk in there. Plus, they often have additional, interesting interfaces which can be used to control them. The best argument, though, is that Smart TVs are just more prone to failure. Even if you trust in your ability to prevent them from spying on you, or being compromised remotely and used as part of a botnet, most of them won't work at all if the "smart" bit fails.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"