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One factor I've found is the intersection of Enhanced Tracking Protection and Multi-Account Container in Firefox. I'm seeing daily "Please stop using an ad bloc
by WorldMaker 3y ago
One factor I've found is the intersection of Enhanced Tracking Protection and Multi-Account Container in Firefox. I'm seeing daily "Please stop using an ad blocker, Firefox is an ad blocker, please use Chrome, this site works best in Chrome" banners and ad walls and paywalls and other similar cranky anti-patterns.
It fascinates me how many people I know have uBlock (Origin) installed in Chrome and see nowhere near as many whiny banners and "stop running an ad blocker" nonsense as I see running Firefox without an ad blocker just ETP and MAC. The people complaining "Firefox is an ad blocker" are making it clear that they don't actually care that you are blocking ads or not, they care that you are blocking trackers and hate you for trying to maintain a semblance of privacy. Keeps saying the quiet parts out loud.
Most of the sites that do that are a "close tab and ignore" thing, some are a sequester to their own account container and feed them garbage (create a dumb account for them, turn off ETP just for them just in that container). It is still only a once-a-month case where such a site I need to get something done on is entirely broken in Firefox and I need to open it in something Chromium based, but that's still too often and getting worse.
But that "Firefox is an ad blocker, please use a less private browser" is a daily annoyance for me for sure.