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Firefox 139 hides homescreen option to disable ads (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by LWD@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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After I noticed Firefox has removed the Pocket branding but kept the Pocket stories, I also noticed the settings screen on the homepage no longer lets you disable sponsored stories or links.

Firefox 115:

Firefox 139:

You can still remove these advertisements, but you have to leave the homepage and dig through the settings to find that option.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wow. I'm not blaming you for not knowing, but you got BSed.

TBC announced the killing-off of their Arc browser on May 26.

Marques Brownlee brought the CEO on for a podcast released on June 2, where the CEO claims they (still) make Arc.

This is disinfo. It's getting peddled by either Marques or the CEO of The Browser Company, or both — and either way, somebody should feel ashamed of it.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

what, they're killing arc already? holy shit

edit: oh my god that article is painful. "i wish I went all in on ai because i enjoyed playing with chatgpt"?

Webpages won’t be the primary interface anymore. Traditional browsers were built to load webpages. But increasingly, webpages — apps, articles, and files — will become tool calls with AI chat interfaces.

WHAT THE FUCK LOL this is straight up brain damage from using too much chatgpt

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I love the em dashes, the weird similes, and the insistence that anybody can just sit down at and play a piano. As you do.

First, simplicity over novelty. Early on, Scott Forstall told us Arc felt like a saxophone — powerful but hard to learn. Then he challenged us: make it a piano. Something anyone can sit down at and play. This is now the idea behind Dia: hide complexity behind familiar interfaces.

[–] NRay7882@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I agree theyre putting effort into their AI branded browser now over Arc, but he did reiterate that Arc would remain in maintenance mode. Security patches, fixes would still get implemented but it's being facilitated by 2-3 engineers only and no new features will be developed for it. Has no bright future, but I wouldn't call that dead. He equated it to Safari, essentially.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Based on the language of the post, it sure sounds like the CEO regrets putting resources into Arc and talks about pulling the plug sooner. Maybe they'll keep throwing resources at it, but this sounds like continuing to do so would simply be more of a regrettable decision:

First, I would’ve stopped working on Arc a year earlier... We just didn’t want to admit it. We knew. We were just in denial.

I also don't know how sustainable the company is, or how novel their new browser (which is basically Google Chrome with a chatbot built in) will be to people who already have Google Chrome as an option. Did the CEO mention how many employees they have? I'd encourage you to venture, I guess, if not, and then imagine how many salaries that cost per year...

[–] NRay7882@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Good info to know, thanks.