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I have seen that Mozilla have implemented sponsored links on the startpagein Firefox.

At first I was slightly annoyed, but the more I think about it, the better I feel.

Firefox needs new revenue streams, they can't depend on Google any more, and if some small sponsored Links helps pay the bills without Google, I am all for it!

What do you think about it?

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Disabled it the second I noticed

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago

That is what I like about it, if you really don't want it, you can disable it easily (:

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

That doesn't reduce their revenue, right? Except in the case the companies don't see increased traffic coming from Firefox therefore pulling their sponsored links from FF.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 12 points 8 months ago

I wish they weren't needed, but I can see why they help. I don't quite get why anyone would pay for it though - from the ones I've seen so far, I'm having a hard time imagining how they would lead to a transaction occurring. Though for name recognition it probably helps.

As an aside, it's nice that you can just turn them off. Where do you see that nowadays?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, I too feel I need to be more lenient towards Mozzy just for their dev work (and they do or did more).

Donating some monies too, but this is for the viability of their business model. I don't think this (within current context) can't ever escalate to like fullscreen ads or anything, it's just an income diversification for risk management purposes.

I always remind myself that 90% of the market is chrome.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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