Title: See: How to customize Firefox Suggest settings, https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;kb&#x2F;firefox-suggest<p>They have added a new option to Firefox privacy settings, enabled by default of course, to allow &quot;suggestions from sponsors&quot; to &quot;occasional&quot;ly appear in the navigation bar dropdown, as if they were bookmarks.  I noticed this by seeing a link to Office Depot in the pulldown, wondering what Office Depot page I had bookmarked or in my history, and discovering that it was an in-browser &quot;sponsored suggestion&quot;.  It appears to work by sending all your navigation bar typeahead to Mozilla so it can match you with a sponsor (oops about that privacy, lol).  I&#x27;m not sure how recent this &quot;feature&quot; is, but I think it is recent, and I only noticed it today (I&#x27;m on LTS Firefox but installed an update a few days ago).  Maybe the less stable releases have had it for longer.<p>Turning the sponsored suggestions off is not that difficult (see the url above for instructions), but Mozilla&#x27;s unceasing obsession with inveigling advertising into the browser is... disturbing.  Another day in the enshittification of the web.
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