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Comment by mrob

1 day ago

>This is not coming to the Linux world. The moment this sort of thing happens, distros get forked.

I installed Debian 13 recently. The first time I opened Firefox ESR (installed by default), I got something that looked like adverts on the home page (banner blindness means I have no memory of what they actually were, only of the feeling of disgust). The Home section of the Settings page had options for "Sponsored shortcuts" and "Sponsored stories" enabled by default. Changing a default setting is a lot easier than forking software, yet it was not done.

Rather than complaining to you that Firefox isn’t Linux, I’ll point out that Firefox is a great example.

LibreWolf was forked to deal with the exact situation you describe.