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a blank new tab in Firefox, with a weather widget that reads 72F and cloudy. When you hover over it you get a hamburger menu and the tiny label text "AccuWeather - Sponsored". Clicking the menu gives you the options: Change location, Switch to Celsius, Switch to detailed view, Hide weather on New Tab, Learn more

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a blank new tab in Firefox, with a weather widget that reads 72F and cloudy. When you hover over it you get a hamburger menu and the tiny label text "AccuWeather - Sponsored". Clicking the menu gives you the options: Change location, Switch to Celsius, Switch to detailed view, Hide weather on New Tab, Learn more
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Ryan Baumann (ryanfb@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 11:14:41 JST Ryan Baumann

Mozilla, reading the room extremely well, seemingly just recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab you open. Clicking "Learn more" takes you here, with zero information on if your location is sent to AccuWeather every time you open a new tab: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-items-on-firefox-new-tab-page
Probably only noticed because I normally have a blank new tab page but this showed up after updating Firefox!

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