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I feel this heavily depends on your goal. IMHO, this points at Firefox being used mostly by ad-averse, tech-savvy users, while the less-adverse, less-savvy use

I feel this heavily depends on your goal. IMHO, this points at Firefox being used mostly by ad-averse, tech-savvy users, while the less-adverse, less-savvy users prefer Safari and/or Chrome. If your objective is to maximize ad revenue, the most obvious approach would now be to ignore Firefox completely and focus on non-FF browsers. Of course, following web standards would be the Golden Way, and more selfless actors follow that rule, but that song has been sung ever since the old Netscape/MSIE wars.

bluGill 5y ago
> If your objective is to maximize ad revenue, the most obvious approach would now be to ignore Firefox completely and focus on non-FF browsers. No, your best approach is to test firefox carefully to ensure it is broken. That way you encourage people to use something more friendly to you. I hope I didn't give anyone ideas.
- dannyw 5y ago
  Dont give Google Maps and YouTube ideas. Wait...
  - tempestn 5y ago
    Also Google Meet. I've noticed my webcam always comes through crystal clear in Meet on Chrome, but is reliably blurry in Firefox.
    - ddalex 5y ago
      Wouldnt that be a feature ? I hate broadcasting hires images of myself.
- nine_k 5y ago
  It's less of a joke than it sounds. I have to keep Chromium around not just for testing in it, but also to make certain purchases, reservations, etc, because some sites just fail to work in regular Firefox, even with enhanced protection off. Not many, maybe 0.1%, but in a pinch there's no other way than to fire up MISE^W Chromium.
nebula8804 5y ago
Is there a good blocking solution for Safari? From what I understand uBlock Origin cannot operate on Safari due to the way that it disallows some allows access to the underlying source of the webpage. Also it seems like extensions on Safari require you to install them via the App Store which just seems so dumb and unintuitive compared to Chrome/Firefox. If they fixed these two issues, I think Safari usage would be much greater. That browser is so incredibly fast and snappy especially on the new M1 macs but not having proper ad-blocking is a complete deal breaker.
- GoblinSlayer 5y ago
  Add these to hosts: 0.0.0.0 www.google.com 0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 www.googletagmanager.com 0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com 0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com 0.0.0.0 fonts.googleapis.com 0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 twitter.com 0.0.0.0 platform.twitter.com

bluGill 5y ago

> If your objective is to maximize ad revenue, the most obvious approach would now be to ignore Firefox completely and focus on non-FF browsers. No, your best approach is to test firefox carefully to ensure it is broken. That way you encourage people to use something more friendly to you. I hope I didn't give anyone ideas.

dannyw 5y ago
Dont give Google Maps and YouTube ideas. Wait...
- tempestn 5y ago
  Also Google Meet. I've noticed my webcam always comes through crystal clear in Meet on Chrome, but is reliably blurry in Firefox.
  - ddalex 5y ago
    Wouldnt that be a feature ? I hate broadcasting hires images of myself.
nine_k 5y ago
It's less of a joke than it sounds. I have to keep Chromium around not just for testing in it, but also to make certain purchases, reservations, etc, because some sites just fail to work in regular Firefox, even with enhanced protection off. Not many, maybe 0.1%, but in a pinch there's no other way than to fire up MISE^W Chromium.

nebula8804 5y ago

Is there a good blocking solution for Safari? From what I understand uBlock Origin cannot operate on Safari due to the way that it disallows some allows access to the underlying source of the webpage. Also it seems like extensions on Safari require you to install them via the App Store which just seems so dumb and unintuitive compared to Chrome/Firefox. If they fixed these two issues, I think Safari usage would be much greater. That browser is so incredibly fast and snappy especially on the new M1 macs but not having proper ad-blocking is a complete deal breaker.

GoblinSlayer 5y ago
Add these to hosts: 0.0.0.0 www.google.com 0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com 0.0.0.0 www.googletagmanager.com 0.0.0.0 www.googletagservices.com 0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com 0.0.0.0 fonts.googleapis.com 0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 twitter.com 0.0.0.0 platform.twitter.com