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irefox 93 was recently launched by Mozilla, but even though it was positively received by critics, the launch was overshadowed by the discovery that there were now adverts included in the address bar, a drastic and invasive change that Mozilla had failed to properly disclose.
The feature, known as Firefox Suggest, started to appear for some users in Firefox 92, despite there being no official communication about the feature until a blog post on September 15 (https://bit.ly/lxf283ffsuggest), where it describes the feature as “a new discovery feature that is built directly into the browser.” Its inclusion in Firefox 93 is hidden in the release notes, and it led to users complaining online.