Firefox app on android. Never seen this before until today. But Firefox is now putting ads in the app?

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    I didn’t mind the occasional sponsor or two for many years. Then one day they went over the line.

    Yeah I know i should be on librefox/waterfox. Im lazy okay?

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      4 hours ago

      You can disable them, but also I’m pretty sure the default behavior is just to fill extra space if you have less than 8 pinned shortcuts. Your single shortcut is why there are so many ads.

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      7 hours ago

      Switching your firefox profile to a firefox fork is super easy peasy squeezy cheesy peas.

      You just need to follow the steps for moving your profile in this Firefox support article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

      When you start librewolf or whatever you switch to (librewolf is what I use) it will have everything from Firefox including whatever your last session was (if you save your session) and all of your history and bookmarks and even addons and UI customization etc.