> Can you state what hardship this has caused you?
It subjected me to a bunch of banal content on my homepage that I didn't want or like.
> Does it impose extra layers of clicking to get work done or occupy valuable screen space?
It occupied a second or two of my attention when opening a new tab. Sometimes I got suckered into clicking on an article, which I almost immediately regretted every time.
> this molehill is a mountain to them.
I clicked to disable it and moved on with my life. I find it unfortunate but not worth more than the two seconds of distraction it already took from me.
You are using a browser for free that is decades worth of devtime and effort, gifted to you by its developers and you cry about a config change that takes 2 seconds?
I'm not so sure why you're so upset about something that can be removed with two clicks. If that's your only real complaint with a browser, I'd say that's a pretty successful browser.
That's why I use high-quality firefox forks like Waterfox, which keeps the most popular Firefox features and security while removing things like phoning home or Pocket.
It subjected me to a bunch of banal content on my homepage that I didn't want or like.
> Does it impose extra layers of clicking to get work done or occupy valuable screen space?
It occupied a second or two of my attention when opening a new tab. Sometimes I got suckered into clicking on an article, which I almost immediately regretted every time.
> this molehill is a mountain to them.
I clicked to disable it and moved on with my life. I find it unfortunate but not worth more than the two seconds of distraction it already took from me.