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Working with its advertising partners, Mozilla may place sponsored shortcuts on the default Firefox home page and New Tab page. Learn more.

Sponsored shortcuts is a feature available in English and in a few other languages (currently German, French, and Spanish).<!-- see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy/discuss/9857 --> Mozilla works with advertising partners to place sponsored shortcuts on the default Firefox home page and [[About the New Tab page|New Tab]] page that would be useful to Firefox users. Mozilla is paid when users click on sponsored shortcuts. __TOC__ =Who are Mozilla's advertising partners?= Privacy is fundamental to Mozilla's mission, and we only work with advertising partners that meet our privacy standards for Firefox. Our preferred partner is [https://www.admarketplace.com/privacy-policy/ adMarketplace]. =What data is shared?= When you click on a sponsored shortcut, Firefox sends [https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/firefox/#recommend-relevant-content anonymized technical data] to our partner through a Mozilla-owned proxy service. The code for this proxy service is available [https://github.com/mozilla-services/topsites-proxy on GitHub] for interested technical audiences. This data does not include any personally identifying information and is only shared when you click on a sponsored shortcut. =How to delete a specific sponsored shortcut= You can disable a specific sponsored shortcut on desktop by taking the following steps: #Hover over the shortcut until the three-dot menu icon appears. #Open the menu and click {menu Dismiss}. #;[[Image:SponsoredShortcuts89|width=400]] =How to disable the feature= You can also disable sponsored shortcuts altogether. ==Firefox desktop== #[[Template:optionspreferences]] #Select the {menu Home} panel. #In the ''Firefox Home Content'' section, unselect {menu Sponsored shortcuts}. {note}'''Tip:''' You can also change your setting for sponsored shortcuts by clicking the gear [[Image:Fx89Personalize-GearIcon]] icon in the top right corner of the New Tab page.{/note} ==Firefox for Android== #[[Template:menupreview]] #Tap {menu Settings}. #Tap {menu Homepage}. #Unselect {menu Sponsored shortcuts} under {menu Shortcuts}.