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It still has ads, but it is also a better experience. The web ads tend to bed more intrusive and outside the UX, more irrelevant, and more malware like. I don

It still has ads, but it is also a better experience. The web ads tend to bed more intrusive and outside the UX, more irrelevant, and more malware like. I don't like those apps either, but the UI is definitely better. I'm not sure why Firefox just doesn't build adblocking into the browser as a first class feature - maybe because they rely on the Google funding? All of the "ad-supported business model supports creators, ad-supported businesses allow more people to access to the content" just feels like after the fact rationalization. The same with how good targeting is because the ads are relevant. If your content is valuable then charge for it. If browsers actually blocked all the ads like users wanted (and made a better product) then sites that couldn't support themselves without ads would die. Wouldn't that be nice.

kenhwang 6y ago
> I'm not sure why Firefox just doesn't build adblocking into the browser as a first class feature - maybe because they rely on the Google funding? They kinda do. They keep building APIs requested by the adblockers so that adblocking can continue to work efficiently/effecitvely. They're also blocking the underlying abuses of advertising by increasing privacy by making it more difficult to track/fingerprint, increased security with the safe browsing checks (phishing/malware), and anti-cryptomining.
dependenttypes 6y ago
> I'm not sure why Firefox just doesn't build adblocking into the browser as a first class feature - maybe because they rely on the Google funding? I am glad that they do not. I doubt that mozilla would be able to make anything nearly as good as ublock origin. They already tried something similar with "tracker blocking" - it is uncustomizable and generally inferior to ublock.