Thanks to the team for this update!
I like what Mozilla does but I am quite disappointed by the update of Firefox to its 85.0.2 version. Indeed when I open a new tab, I can now see sponsored sites (©ebay™, but I have read that others have an “advertisement” for ©Amazon™).
In order to disable this new deplorable functionality, according to this post from Cohan Robinson, one should:
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write
about:configin the url bar and -
accept the risk and go further
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search for
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored -
set to false the following to false by clicking to an icon on the right hand
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites
I have done and it seems to work on my machine: no sponsored tabs any more!
I hope that it can help others and that Mozilla will stop this very soon!