3 ms·

A good ad blocker also saves battery. Not loading ads will also help the page load faster and that definitely smooths out the experience.

rpastuszak 4y ago
Which is another reason to try a browser not owned by an advertising business. From the perspective of Google, your browser or your phone are just ad spaces.
- criddell 4y ago
  Google sells ads, so no Chrome. Since they are the primary force behind Chromium, does that mean no Chromium-based browsers? Apple sells ads, so that rules out Safari. Microsoft sells ads, so no Edge or Internet Explorer. Mozilla sells ads, so no Firefox. Brave sells ads, so no Brave. What’s left? Lynx?
  - turbobooster 4y ago
    He said owned by an advertising company. Read it again. None of the companies you listed are owned by an advertising company. Your post is written as if you work for Google and you need to defend them.
  - pajko 4y ago
    Ungoogled Chromium, LibreWolf, Iceraven, Bromite
  - rpastuszak 4y ago
    I feel like this line of thinking is unnecessarily binary. Think of it this way: what percentage of the revenue of each of these businesses comes from advertising? Where can you put your (understandably) limited trust given the limited list of options? There's a huge difference between the incentives of Alphabet and, _say_, Mozilla from the revenue source pov.
    - fikama 4y ago
      Isn't the main source of revenue for Mozilla Google? So what is the difference in their incentives from a revenue pov?
      - rpastuszak 4y ago
        Not everything’s black and white. How much control does Google have over the feature set of FF[1] or Safari[2]? ^1 ca $400M paid to Mozilla for search partnerships by Google, per annum ^2 probably ca 10-15B paid to Apple, pa How would you answer your own question?
        fikama 4y ago
        I am not sure I understand. Mozilla is more dependent on those 400M than apple on 10-15B so (hypothetically) they are more willing to please Google or at least not to disturb them much, than Apple. So, purely from revenue pov Firefox is nearly as much concerned about google's bussiness as google is.
  - lmedinas 4y ago
    Get a VPN or use TOR.
  - spixy 4y ago
    > Apple sells ads > Microsoft sells ads > Mozilla sells ads what?
alwayslikethis 4y ago
It also saves something much more important than your device's battery - your attention and mental energy! uBlock Origin has, to date, blocked 1.6 million requests for me for this installation of firefox. Imagine all the power and mental energy I saved from this. Every time I have to use someone else's computer I get tired of the ads they show within minutes (Windows even has ads on the start menu nowadays!)

rpastuszak 4y ago

Which is another reason to try a browser not owned by an advertising business. From the perspective of Google, your browser or your phone are just ad spaces.

criddell 4y ago
Google sells ads, so no Chrome. Since they are the primary force behind Chromium, does that mean no Chromium-based browsers? Apple sells ads, so that rules out Safari. Microsoft sells ads, so no Edge or Internet Explorer. Mozilla sells ads, so no Firefox. Brave sells ads, so no Brave. What’s left? Lynx?
- turbobooster 4y ago
  He said owned by an advertising company. Read it again. None of the companies you listed are owned by an advertising company. Your post is written as if you work for Google and you need to defend them.
- pajko 4y ago
  Ungoogled Chromium, LibreWolf, Iceraven, Bromite
- rpastuszak 4y ago
  I feel like this line of thinking is unnecessarily binary. Think of it this way: what percentage of the revenue of each of these businesses comes from advertising? Where can you put your (understandably) limited trust given the limited list of options? There's a huge difference between the incentives of Alphabet and, _say_, Mozilla from the revenue source pov.
  - fikama 4y ago
    Isn't the main source of revenue for Mozilla Google? So what is the difference in their incentives from a revenue pov?
    - rpastuszak 4y ago
      Not everything’s black and white. How much control does Google have over the feature set of FF[1] or Safari[2]? ^1 ca $400M paid to Mozilla for search partnerships by Google, per annum ^2 probably ca 10-15B paid to Apple, pa How would you answer your own question?
      - fikama 4y ago
        I am not sure I understand. Mozilla is more dependent on those 400M than apple on 10-15B so (hypothetically) they are more willing to please Google or at least not to disturb them much, than Apple. So, purely from revenue pov Firefox is nearly as much concerned about google's bussiness as google is.
- lmedinas 4y ago
  Get a VPN or use TOR.
- spixy 4y ago
  > Apple sells ads > Microsoft sells ads > Mozilla sells ads what?

alwayslikethis 4y ago

It also saves something much more important than your device's battery - your attention and mental energy! uBlock Origin has, to date, blocked 1.6 million requests for me for this installation of firefox. Imagine all the power and mental energy I saved from this. Every time I have to use someone else's computer I get tired of the ads they show within minutes (Windows even has ads on the start menu nowadays!)