[Chester LUG] Looks like Firefox got caught bundling adware in the browser.

[Les Pritchard]

Have you looked at Firefox Focus? Isn't that supposed to be added free?

Trouble is very few companies are willing to support a modern browser
without some form of income.

On 9 Oct 2017 2:20 pm, <stuart at newlymintedmedia.com> wrote:

> Problem is that Brave inject their own ads into other peoples content ☹ I
> am just trying to build Chromium for lols now 😊
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> *From:* Les Pritchard [mailto:les.pritchard at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 09 October 2017 00:04
> *To:* stuart at newlymintedmedia.com; chester <chester at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> *Subject:* Re: [Chester LUG] Looks like Firefox got caught bundling
> adware in the browser.
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> Oh dear, that's not good. Someone recommended Brave Browser to me
> recently. It has a built in ad blocker. Tried it a little bit and it seemed
> to work well.
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> On 8 Oct 2017 11:33 pm, "stuart--- via Chester" <
> chester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> Just a quick one… Looks like FF are “experimenting” with adware/spyware
> bundled into the browser. Worth a read..https://www.reddit.com/r
> /privacy/comments/750vsm/firefox_devs_discussing_how_to_
> secretly_sneak_the/ Not gone in depth but it’s all a bit naughty imho.
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