I set the following in my user.js to disable this kind of thing. It keeps my default search engine suggestions but disables all the junk. Strictly speaking I think the last line is technically redundant as quicksuggest.all=false should disable .sponsored as well but no harm in being explicit about it.
im glad every update i don't have to nanny my "private" browser with obscure config changes to sell me out by using a actual private browser such as librewolf and mullvad browser
Sheesh. I'm surprised nobody announced how difficult it is to toggle some checkboxes for disabling the completely unintrusive crypto features of Brave in this thread.
Title has been editorialized & elides the change is regional rollout rather than the functionality itself.
It's probably easier to search for lists of things to disable in Firefox than go one per post anyways. One of the nice things about Firefox (other than the relative amount of these things) is the knobs to remove them usually exist somewhere for you to pull.
The title has not been editorialised by any reasonable interpretation. The person who submitted the link chose a title which accurately summarises the aspect of the release notes they feel to be noteworthy. There’s been no judgement or personal view injected outside of the purpose of drawing attention to a specific passage.
The consent dialog is one of the most unhinged examples I’ve seen. No “reject all”, I clicked reject on each of the visible sections which kept the save selected button grayed out. To fix that you have to click all providers and reject each one, and there are nearly 200.
I know. In this case i usually set firefox in reader mode, and if the page doesn't load, nothing of value was lost. (Clickbait anyway. The option had been there almost as long as sponsored links in home tiles)
and yet many on HN will keep insisting firefox does not have ads or sell user data despite literally defaulting to google for money which directly means selling user search data to them and showing ads.
the actual "fix" is not changing config settings regularly broken/changed but with a proper fork actually delivering what firefox keeps promising such as librewolf and mullvad browser.
Somehow brave is doing exact that and is doing more than fine. I guess not using all the donation and advertising money for over priced and underperforming board member that waste even more money on tech unrelated political activism does help.
> In Germany, France, and Italy, Firefox 156 displays localized Wikipedia suggestions and occasional sponsored results in the address bar. The feature is part of Firefox Suggest and supplements typed entries with relevant suggestions. According to Mozilla, these suggestions can be disabled in the Firefox Suggest settings.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 16.7 ms ] threadIt's annoying, but thankfully it's a single checkbox in the settings to disable it (uncheck "Suggestions from sponsors").
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest
It's probably easier to search for lists of things to disable in Firefox than go one per post anyways. One of the nice things about Firefox (other than the relative amount of these things) is the knobs to remove them usually exist somewhere for you to pull.
I use Firefox because I believe in an alternative to Chrome, but they make it fucking hard to love Firefox.
the actual "fix" is not changing config settings regularly broken/changed but with a proper fork actually delivering what firefox keeps promising such as librewolf and mullvad browser.
And if you want an even more security hardened fork, LibreWolf.
Vanilla Firefox lost the plot a long time ago.
the whole relevant section is
> In Germany, France, and Italy, Firefox 156 displays localized Wikipedia suggestions and occasional sponsored results in the address bar. The feature is part of Firefox Suggest and supplements typed entries with relevant suggestions. According to Mozilla, these suggestions can be disabled in the Firefox Suggest settings.