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Look at where Firefox gets its funding and you’ll see why they might be reluctant to ship ad blocking on their flagship product. Firefox does have Firefox Focu
by opportune 4y ago
Look at where Firefox gets its funding and you’ll see why they might be reluctant to ship ad blocking on their flagship product.
Firefox does have Firefox Focus on mobile with built in ad blocking/tracker blocking. I use it all the time yet I’m still not sure whether it allows “acceptable” ads due to general ad blindness, though I know it doesn’t block everything (which could just be due to lack of community reports for that ad type, or something).
- Nextgrid 4y ago> Look at where Firefox gets its funding and you’ll see why they might be reluctant to ship ad blocking on their flagship product. Great, then it means it's time to actually build a profitable business, or at least own up to their conflict of interest instead of blaming everyone for their inability to run a business without relying on handouts.
- jaywalk 4y agoSeriously. It seems like the only "innovation" coming out of Mozilla these days involves finding new ways to complain about their marketshare dwindling that don't involve their browser being inferior to their major competitors in many ways.
- therealmarv 4y agoActually Brave solved that part. It has a working business model with its opt in ad users. Actually impressive they solved it.
- fabrice_d 4y agoI like Brave a lot, but their business model is not providing enough revenue to build a full web runtime + browser either since they are a Chrome fork.