Mozilla makes some silent changes to Firefox that do not excite its users after sporadic ad views have been reported.
Not only is it Microsoft that changes Edge but Mozilla has begun the changes since it started to show ads on new tabs, with users reporting that it is happening on all supported desktop platforms.
Such as reported in reddit, a small pop-up window appears at the bottom of the screen and includes a link to the accommodation rental company Booking.com. And of course doing click στο κουμπί “Εύρεση ενός ξενοδοχείου”, οι χρήστες μεταβαίνουν στη address of Booking.
It appears that these messages appear only occasionally and only for a specific set of users, so Mozilla is likely to carry out a limited experiment. In our personal computers we have not yet seen such behavior.
According to tests done by users on reddit, advertising messages can be stopped from appearing if you disable "Snippets" from the settings of Firefox. Although the official announcement about the "Snippets" says that they are updates from Mozilla for Firefox, and have nothing to do with advertising, the company uses them for its tests.
Mozilla has not issued a statement as to whether it is merely running an experiment or that is the expected behavior in Firefox 64.
However, it goes without saying that users are not happy with the ads that appear in the browser, and although they are allowed to disable the feature, the fact that they are turned on by their will may cause more frustration for the existing user community.
More official information from the Mozilla engineers will probably come to us in the next few days, after the holidays.
