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

[Jon LaBadie]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 11:32:05AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users 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've not used my Ubuntu system for browsing.  However that screen shot
matches what I have on my Fedora FF.  It is the configuration panel for
the default home page.  Mine is set to 4 rows of Shortcuts (8 per row)
and Recent Activity enabled (2 rows of 4).  Like the screen shot, 
"Sponsored shortcuts" is not checked.

The 32 shortcuts on my home page (incld new tabs) are all websites I 
visit regularly including some within my LAN.  The 8 recent activities
are all specific webpages I have visited VERY recently.

Forty links in total, not a single ad among them.  I find them useful.
Go to my home page or a new tab and I'm a single click away from my
bank, my favorite sports team, several online stores I regularly use,
my router's admin page, etc.  The shortcuts are dynamic, if I visit
a site several times, it will replace one of the existing shortcuts.

Have you visited the ADIDAS website.  Perhaps the shortcut system was
just doing its thing helping you revisit a previously visited site.

Don't like them?  Turn off the shortcuts like you have the recent 
activity feature.

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Jon H. LaBadie                  ubu at labadie.us