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I agree with pretty much everything you've said :) I guess my gripe is more "Why does the world not work right" than "Firefox has done a stinker here". And I
by undecisive 6y ago
I agree with pretty much everything you've said :)
I guess my gripe is more "Why does the world not work right" than "Firefox has done a stinker here".
And I suppose my reaction really should be "How can we work to give Firefox a leg up, while still encouraging it to intentionally fail many of the metrics most people care about".
It's a hard battle to fight. Don't suppose Google will implement these things that might hurt their user tracking businesses... yeah?... no?... no.
> thanks to the popularity of content blockers like Pi-Hole and uBlockOrigin
Unfortunately these are "block these please" which hurts all the big players for the tiny portion of web users that use them. Every time I've ever moved a feature in software I've written from "all except this" to "none except this", it has always failed spectacularly, at least for a few people. The fact that users will get an option to unblock the services they need is encouraging... the fact that they mention that users might see the dialog multiple times for the same service is not.
But yes, I will try to be hopeful - and you are right, the fact that Firefox does this kind of thing is a big part of the reason I use them in the first place.