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Firefox on the Brink?
- clouddrover 3y ago> I am personally unaware of any serious reason to believe that Firefox’s numbers will improve soon. Here's a reason: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes-forward-with-plans-to-limit-ad-blockers-in-the-future https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes... The solution is to use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- brycewray 3y agoAuthor here. What you say is true (I certainly wouldn’t dispute Raymond Hill about his own excellent extension!); but the problem is that “normies” outnumber knowledgeable “techies” by such a gigantic amount in those decisive analytics, and “normies” neither know nor care about such considerations. They use default browsers — Chrome or Edge in their work environments and Safari or Chrome* on their phones — each with its default settings and extensions (if any), and they remain blissfully unaware of alternatives or alternative settings. As I said in the article: > I surely hope I’m wrong about this, but I fear I’m not. * Or, in the worst case, Samsung Internet.
- clouddrover 3y agoThat's why it's up to us to teach responsible care and feeding of the web. At this point Chrome is an irresponsible browser choice.
- robocat 3y agoCall me biased, but this is another bad sign: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-foundation-welcomes-four-new-board-members/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-foundation-welco... Diversity is great, but should it trump relevancy? And how big does your board need to be?