<story><title>Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Certhas</author><text>A browser is expensive. Currently Firefox is funded (though  not controlled) by Google&amp;#x27;s Ad business. I am all for them reducing their reliance on Google&amp;#x27;s Ad business. In this sense this is a step _towards_ what you want. I really really dislike them double speaking about this though.</text></item><item><author>AegirLeet</author><text>Yeah, it really sucks. I&amp;#x27;ve been using Firefox for 15 years or so but this shit is just so discouraging. Can&amp;#x27;t we have one piece of good software that doesn&amp;#x27;t try to shove &amp;quot;relevant&amp;quot; &amp;quot;suggestions&amp;quot; from &amp;quot;trusted&amp;quot; &amp;quot;partners&amp;quot; down our throats?&lt;p&gt;I just want a browser that isn&amp;#x27;t controlled by the ad mafia.</text></item><item><author>eCa</author><text>As someone who has used Firefox since v0.* I really, really, &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; dislike the language they have used lately.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; relevant suggestions from our trusted partners&lt;p&gt;The suggestions are not relevant to, and the partners not trusted by, me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strken</author><text>Mozilla takes hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue a year. For decades it hired its engineers from the single most expensive place on earth to hire an engineer, the Bay Area. It boosted CEO pay into the millions shortly before laying off a big chunk of its engineering team. If they had taken the cash they spent on &amp;quot;diversifying their revenue streams&amp;quot; (i.e. getting distracted by side projects while their moneymaker Firefox got slower and lost all its users) over the last decade and a half and stuck it into a trust, they&amp;#x27;d be sitting on a war chest of billions of dollars right now.&lt;p&gt;I also don&amp;#x27;t understand what will stop all five of their remaining users from switching to IceCat, Chromium, or Brave.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla to put ads in Firefox address bar suggestions</title><url>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Certhas</author><text>A browser is expensive. Currently Firefox is funded (though  not controlled) by Google&amp;#x27;s Ad business. I am all for them reducing their reliance on Google&amp;#x27;s Ad business. In this sense this is a step _towards_ what you want. I really really dislike them double speaking about this though.</text></item><item><author>AegirLeet</author><text>Yeah, it really sucks. I&amp;#x27;ve been using Firefox for 15 years or so but this shit is just so discouraging. Can&amp;#x27;t we have one piece of good software that doesn&amp;#x27;t try to shove &amp;quot;relevant&amp;quot; &amp;quot;suggestions&amp;quot; from &amp;quot;trusted&amp;quot; &amp;quot;partners&amp;quot; down our throats?&lt;p&gt;I just want a browser that isn&amp;#x27;t controlled by the ad mafia.</text></item><item><author>eCa</author><text>As someone who has used Firefox since v0.* I really, really, &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; dislike the language they have used lately.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; relevant suggestions from our trusted partners&lt;p&gt;The suggestions are not relevant to, and the partners not trusted by, me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skywal_l</author><text>Is there a way to know how the Mozilla Foundation spend its money? They&amp;#x27;ve stopped updating this page[0] in 2019.&lt;p&gt;Maybe a way to rely less on Google and &amp;quot;trusted partners&amp;quot; money is just to spend less.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;foundation.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;who-we-are&amp;#x2F;public-records&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;foundation.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;who-we-are&amp;#x2F;public-records&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>