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There are now ads in Chrome's new-tab page?

2 points by make3 ↗ HN
I currently see an ad for the Chrome Slate in the chrome new-tab page. I think for me this is the last straw to permanently switch to Firefox.

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fnielsen
I searched about for ways to disable this NTP behavior, came up with some things: * these are called promos\promotions and match you see similarly on https://www.google.com/ * promos are also used to include PSA's such as advertising a link to assist in disaster recovery efforts * this has actually been around a while, the capability to include promos has been around in code since at least 2011 if not longer * the local NTP page does not currently have a way to include promos, try enabling chrome://flags/#use-google-local-ntp and you should notice all promos disappear today