[panpanna]

Mozilla is getting hundreds of millions of dollars to set Google as the default search engine. You can change that in 10 seconds.

How are these stupid additions better for anyone? Consumers find them more annoying and they probably don't result in any significant month for Mozilla.

Anyway, we need another open source browser, one that is controlled by the community and not some SV company.

[parsimo2010]

You can also turn off sponsored tiles, so this isn’t different in that respect.

Plus, while Mozilla the corporation is technically a for profit entity, they operate under the direction of the not for profit Mozilla Foundation. They are already the best choice for a browser that is free from an SV company’s influence. But they do have to pay their employees and keep the lights on. How are they supposed to pay for things if they don’t do stuff like this? At least they are honest about which things they are making money from.

[panpanna]

> You can also turn off sponsored tiles, so this isn’t different in that respect.

The point is, I should not need to keep a close eye on Mozilla and disable stuff regularly. I should not need to fight my browser.

[franga2000]

Mozilla is directly competing with Google - probably the most powerful tech company in the world. Google could kill them in a heartbeat, but they keep them around to avoid antitrust issues. If that ever changes and Mozilla doesn't have any other sources of income to fall back on, they can't possibly survive that.