An operating system with all the usual tools, but without news and ads

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 10:33, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 09:53:46 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> >On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 08:10, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
> ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Today I got an ADIDAS shortcut when opening Firefox. Yes, just a
> >> button to open the link and that button was easy to remove.
> >
> >For my education, can you explain exactly what you mean by that
> >please?  I don't know what you meant by 'getting' a shortcut.  As far
> >as I can recollect I have never experienced anything that would
> >describe in that way.
>
> From time to time web browsers require to disable a new "feature".
> However, after an update you first get an ad, than you can disable it
> getting ads, news etc., see attachment.

I have never once seen anything like that.  I wonder why.  Unless it
is fairly new, recently I have started using Chrome more than FF.

Colin