Tips and tricks waterfall
Short but very useful tips and tricks.
In response to this ridiculously over-the-top pure propaganda piece, which purpose is to manipulate you into compliance to the one specific business model they chose. (Hint to Tom's Guide: nobody else but you is responsible for the failure of your chosen business model when it fails).
Left: without a blocker.
Right: default-deny with whitelisting of site's own domains (bestofmedia.com, bestofmicro.com). Take note that I had Flash plug-in disabled, it would have been worst if it had been enabled -- I wasn't ready to go that far to make my point.
As I often say, ads are only the small visible tip of the iceberg of the insidious privacy-invading data mining of people, without their fully informed consent.
When creating a new tab and clicking a tile, here is what is reported for the behind-the-scene scope:
09:36:36 xhr https://tiles.services.mozilla.com/v2/links/click
09:36:34 xhr https://tiles.services.mozilla.com/v2/links/view
So here is a dynamic filtering rule to foil this new Firefox data-mining behavior:
behind-the-scene tiles.services.mozilla.com * block
If you would rather not use dynamic filtering, the following custom static filter will also work:
||tiles.services.mozilla.com^$domain=behind-the-scene