Mozilla enabled ads in Firefox and they're active in Fedora

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 11/15/2014 07:43 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 15.11.2014 um 15:06 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
>> Lars Seipel wrote:
>>> What does the community think of it? Is it okay for our flagship
>>> applications to carry ads and report tracking data?
>>
>> No!
>>
>> IMHO, we should consider dropping Firefox from Fedora entirely, in
>> favor of
>> Epiphany for Workstation and Midori for the Spins (except the KDE Spin
>> which
>> already ships Konqueror as the browser)
> 
> NO!
> 
> * i don't see that crap at all
> * even if i could disable it (or maybe have it in about:config)
> * i want to use Firefox for thousand reasons
> 
> it's *not* freedom to remove Firefox
> freedom would be make it not default but still offer it
> 
> 
> 
+1

Disabling the ADs feature from firefox, if that is possible, would be
the right move for Fedora.

We also could lobby mozilla to re-consider this decision.

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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)