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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:07:36 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users writes:
>
>> Today I got an ADIDAS shortcut when opening Firefox. Yes, just a
>> button to open the link and that button was easy to remove.  
>
>Dunno about what's going on on Ubuntu, but I've been using Firefox on
>Fedora since forever. And I don't remember anything like that ever
>happening.

All distros are using the same Firefox. If they just divert from some
defaults, they are forced to rename the fork.

>I do recall reading about how they were adding "sponsored" icons to
>the /default/, blank home page, after their umpteen UI refresh that
>introduced the icons for the "most visited" sites from your browser
>history. This is what you're probably referring to.
>
>The reason I never saw that is because I'm not using Firefox's default
>home page. I have it set to something else. Do that, even set  
>https://www.google.com as your default home page, and get pretty much
>the same thing you're getting now, and no ads.

Yes, but I want to use pinned "shortcuts". And yes, you can get rid of
crap, but you never know when crap will appear again.

>Firefox with Ublock origin is the only way to keep one's sanity on the
> modern intertubes.

The screen shot is a little bit too small,
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20220607/bb60f3a8/attachment-0001.jpg
, on the right side, the most left grey add-on icon is Ublock origin,
but this is completely no help with the issue that Firefox developers,
as well as developers of other web browsers add crap to the GUI.