The thing I like most about FOSS is how, while not always being the most user friendly, it's never user hostile. Showing ads is user hostile behavior.

If everyone was going to just turn it off, they wouldn't have bothered putting it there in the first place. Clearly most or at least many users won't turn it off, by mozilla's estimation.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

For the vast majority of users, the default option is the only option

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't think most users don't care about ads. I've offered to install adblockers for my parents many times and they don't care. I was helping a coworker pirate something the other day and offered and he didn't care. shrug-outta-hecks I don't get it but I think we are much more bothered by ads then the typical user.

[–] The_Grinch@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But if they didn't have ads there is no chance users would ask for them. Ads are only ever user hostile.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Of course I turned them off, but my flabber was still thoroughly gasted from having ads shoved in my face

If I wanted that I'd use Edge

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

you shouldn’t have to go to the settings to turn this shit off. you should have to go there to manually enable them if they absolutely must “improve our experience” by adding them

[–] ludicolo@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Let me fix it for you:

"Why are companies so allergic to having software that respects the user as a person rather than a product? They could have just kept it off by default!"

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

some workplaces disable access to settings and things like extensions for nanny or security reasons.