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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:46:36 JST minute

   it irritates me that firefox ships sponsored ads by default even on debian. how could this be turned off? i really don't want our devices to show an OTTO sponsored icon by default.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:49:14 JST minute

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     • SkyfaR :xbox: :nswitch:

     @SkyfaR i mean, how can we not have these there by default, when shipping a system with debian and firefox preinstalled

   • SkyfaR :xbox: :nswitch: (skyfar@fedinerds.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:49:16 JST SkyfaR :xbox: :nswitch:

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     @mntmn press on the three points, and choose "delete/remove".

   • popey (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:49:19 JST popey

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     @mntmn I wonder how much Mozilla makes from that. I know when we had the web app icon in Ubuntu (not the “shopping lens”) it made a decent revenue to pay for desktop development. Sadly it massively tarnished the company and product in the community. Short term gain.

   • Itanium Thom (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:51:24 JST Itanium Thom

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     @mntmn Are you "allowed", as an OEM distributor of Firefox, to turn them off before shipping? I mean, is there any legal document that could stop you?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:59:56 JST minute

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     • SkyfaR :xbox: :nswitch:

     @SkyfaR not true, it turns out we can ship a prefs.js with "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.topsites" set to false

   • SkyfaR :xbox: :nswitch: (skyfar@fedinerds.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:59:57 JST SkyfaR :xbox: :nswitch:

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     @mntmn You can't, it comes with Firefox by default. You could compile your own Firefox and remove it there.

     But otherwise you won't have much success, unfortunately.

     By the way, it doesn't matter which operating system you use, you have the same options for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

   • Charlie Balogh (chainq@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 22:00:38 JST Charlie Balogh

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     @mntmn In about:preferences#home, under "Shortcuts", switch off "Sponsored shortcuts"? Just a guess... No idea how to make this default in Debian. 😅 Probably you can add it to some default setting to the default user...

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 22:11:07 JST minute

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     thanks for pointing me to the right settings! here's my proposed fix (to be tested) https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-tools/-/commit/e30b5bef7cab8a7c2e9c444141d279f8c8646663

   • Q. Edwards (the_q@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 00:35:56 JST Q. Edwards

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     @mntmn while I don't like ads either... how do you expect Mozilla to provide a free piece of software if not through advertising?