WTF @firefox?!?!
Why am I getting sponsored content on my free browser (and I mean free as in freedom)
If you want to turn it off, go to about:config and toggle browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored and browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites to false (I'm not sure which one does it, but if you don't want sponsorships, I assume you don't want either).
I'm also unhappy about it being on by default... Unfortunately, this is probably the fault of the state of the internet, how modern browser development requires to implement unreasonably many functions, making it impossible to anyone except a corporation like Mozilla — who wants to profit off it. If there was a better alternative, I would switch in an instant, but all the other browsers that have all the functionality I need are Chromium in disguise.
@nour don't worry, I found it by going into settings>home page and unchecked sponsored shortcuts
I'm just a bit disappointed because Firefox is one of the few things I trusted to not give me ads constantly, I'm tired at this stage, but there's no better option out there
Well, the only shareholder of the Mozilla Corporation (which develops Firefox) is the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
So, the MoCo essentially cannot pay out profits to anyone, meaning those ads directly pay for the wages of the people creating Firefox. No ads would mean fewer employees and less progress.