Saw this TUI (UK travel agency) advert today on the new tab page, and uBlock Origin can’t block it
Are you sure this isn’t from an extension? Mine doesn’t have any ads or even “Thought-provoking stories”.
You can disable sponsored content in the new tab page in the Firefox settings.
Edit: You can also disable Firefox Studies.
That probably counts as a privileged page, as in something uBlock Origin can’t access or modify.
Mozilla has probably been running another “experiment”, meaning not every user is affected. In the past they claimed it’s not advertisements because they are “continually looking for more ways to say thanks for using Firefox”. (Bullshit.) If you go to Settings > Home, you disable anything you don’t want to see, or just set your home page to a blank page, period.
that does not look like a vanilla Firefox. You should not have those ads there. Check out installed extensions
What part of it doesn’t? Besides the massive banner added the bottom of the screen, everything looks like it’s the default. That icon in the top-left corner comes preinstalled. The search engine is still the default. The only customization I see here is an extra theme and a couple of add-ons.
having a big banner ad at the bottom is not a vanilla experience
I wondered why this was downvoted before I saw the original message in my notifications
yeah, thanks Mr/Ms obvious, you described exactly the reason of why it does not look vanilla at all, that big giant bottom ad banner
Anyway, my point is that I would assume Firefox would look different if there was evidence the user caused this banner by accidentally injecting malware into the browser within Linux.
