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A tool to create firefox profiles with personalized defaults.
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(Firefox 81+) Add option to disable sponsored pocket content #216

Open Youngblood50 opened 3 years ago

Youngblood50 commented 3 years ago

Since Firefox 81 there is a new option which shows sponsored content between the pocket articles on the new tab page.

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored = true/false (default is true)

allo- commented 3 years ago

I wonder how many people allow pocket when using the generator.

I guess we can add this to the choice box here: https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker/blob/master/settings/pocket.json

or here: https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker/blob/master/settings/newtabpage.json

I wonder if it is obvious to users, which want to configure that new tab page, that they should also configure pocket.

Youngblood50 commented 3 years ago

So I did a little bit of testing and turns out that this prefs.js entry is pretty old. I tested on Firefox 76.0 and it was there in about:config, but it didn't do anytrhing. Since Firefox 81.0 this entry controls the sponsored content.