Mozilla to sell ads in Firefox browser

Novice Firefox users now see nine blank tiles when they open up the browser, which fill in over time with their most-visited or recently visited websites. Now, Mozilla intends to display the most popular sites by location, as well as sponsored websites that will be clearly labeled as such.
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No harm in that...
 
2012 said:
Replacing your site panels with advertised sites instead is harmful in my opinion.
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As far as I understand it, they would be blank to begin with, in any case. It's about as innocuous as it gets really.

Anyhow, if it bother us, there's always another browser to use. Like IE. :D
 
copacetic said:
As far as I understand it, they would be blank to begin with, in any case. It's about as innocuous as it gets really.

Anyhow, if it bother us, there's always another browser to use. Like IE. :D
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From what I understand, it would replace your top visited sites with paid for promotional sites instead? I guess we'd have to wait and see how it's implemented before jumping to conclusions.
 
Opera have been doing this for years, it really isn't a big issue.
 
2012 said:
From what I understand, it would replace your top visited sites with paid for promotional sites instead? I guess we'd have to wait and see how it's implemented before jumping to conclusions.
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Taking away the user browsing experience, yeah right.
 
Randhir said:
I agree, as long as that's as far as they take it.
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The advertising model seems harmless...

The company said in a blog posting on Tuesday that it has reached out to potential corporate sponsors about its fledgling “Directory Tiles” program, targeted at first-time users.

Novice Firefox users now see nine blank tiles when they open up the browser, which fill in over time with their most-visited or recently visited websites. Now, Mozilla intends to display the most popular sites by location, as well as sponsored websites that will be clearly labeled as such.

“While we have not worked out the entire product roadmap, we are beginning to talk to content partners about the opportunity, and plan to start showing Directory Tiles to new Firefox users as soon as we have the user experience right,” Darren Herman, vice president of content services, wrote in the blogpost.
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Keeping it in stream with the user experience can be an enhancement rather than a disturbance. Like a “Flipboard” implementation, but targeted on advertising.
 
2012 said:
From what I understand, it would replace your top visited sites with paid for promotional sites instead? I guess we'd have to wait and see how it's implemented before jumping to conclusions.
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Novice Firefox users now see nine blank tiles when they open up the browser, which fill in over time with their most-visited or recently visited websites. Now, Mozilla intends to display the most popular sites by location, as well as sponsored websites that will be clearly labeled as such.

I presumed that as they fill in the adverts will vanish, but it's not entirely clear.

I don't use that screen anyhow, it's annoying, so it's a completely moot point to me personally.
 
I'm was never a massive Firefox fan. but since Google, in their glorious ingenuity, removed the scrollbar arrows in Chrome, I might be forced to become one. But if any of these ads are intrusive in any way, I'll stick with Chrome.
 
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