Firefox reverses course, nixes in-browser ads
Firefox’s in-browser ads were controversial from the start. After all, its development team had previously worked to protect users’ privacy against increasingly invasive online advertising, so it seemed a bit odd for its developers to stick ads of any kind on the browser's start page.
On Friday, however, Mozilla—the non-profit organization that develops Firefox—announced that it will end its in-browser Suggested Tiles advertising program “in order to focus on content discovery,” according to the organization.
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