# Firefox Now Shows Ads As Sponsored Address Bar Suggestions 

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**Created:** [October 8, 2021, 10:02am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/firefox-now-shows-ads-as-sponsored-address-bar-suggestions/203632 "2021-10-08T10:02:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 10:02am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/firefox-now-shows-ads-as-sponsored-address-bar-suggestions/203632/1 "2021-10-08T10:02:11Z")

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[waspleg](https://news.slashdot.org/~waspleg) writes:

_Mozilla is now showing ads in the form of sponsored Firefox contextual suggestions when U.S. [users type in the URL address bar](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firefox-now-shows-ads-as-sponsored-address-bar-suggestions/). Mozilla says the feature was introduced with Firefox 92 in September to fund development and optimization. Mozilla describes Firefox Suggest contextual suggestions as opt-in, in BleepingComputer’s tests and from what users have reported, the feature is on by default._

 

Furthermore, Firefox doesn’t tag the ads displayed via Firefox Suggest. There is no clear way to identify what a sponsored suggestion and what a regular unsponsored suggestion should look like.

_The only way Firefox users will know whether a sponsored suggestion is an ad would be by looking at the URL, but, in many cases, the URL is not clearly visible._