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Firefox reverses course, nixes in-browser ads

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<p>Firefox’s in-browser ads were controversial from the start (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2096923/ads-are-coming-to-firefoxs-new-tab-page.html). After all, its development team had previously worked to protect users’ privacy (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2057926/hands-on-mozillas-lightbeam-is-info-porn-for-privacy-geeks.html) against increasingly invasive online advertising, so it seemed a bit odd for its developers to stick ads of any kind on the browser's start page. </p><p>On Friday, however, Mozilla—the non-profit organization that develops Firefox—announced that it will end (https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/12/04/advancing-content/) its in-browser Suggested Tiles advertising program “in order to focus on content discovery,” according to the organization.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3012255/browsers/firefox-reverses-course-nixes-in-browser-ads.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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