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With Google trying to cripple adblocker extensions, I hope users will find their way back to Firefox.
by BossingAround 3y ago
With Google trying to cripple adblocker extensions, I hope users will find their way back to Firefox.
- unglaublich 3y agoGoogle cripples adblocker extensions because users won't find their way back to alternative browsers anymore.
- LegitShady 3y agolike chrome it can change over time if the value proposition changes.
- BossingAround 3y agoGoogle cripples adblocker extensions because of high interest rate and investor unease over the stock. If FF's market share was 50%, they'd still try to cripple adblockers. Once people start hitting two 30s unskippable ads on every song they want to listen to on YT, they'll start searching on how to fix that. FF could capitalize on this trend.
- ravenstine 3y agoThey know their average user in 2023 is not the type to be cognizant that they're even using a "web browser" when opening an app like Chrome. I think it's really up to geeks like we to install Firefox on our moms' computers and inform them on why they should try it. That's how I got my mom to try Firefox with ad blocking around 15 years ago; otherwise she either wouldn't have known about it or she might have thought ad blocking was something nefarious. We just can't act as if we build it then they will come.
- trealira 3y agoI don't know if that's still true. I have no data, but just anecdotally, I'm pretty sure almost everyone knows what a web browser is and what an ad-blocker extension does nowadays.
- slig 3y ago> I'm pretty sure almost everyone knows what a web browser is and what an ad-blocker extension does nowadays Most of the users do not use ad-blocker and most of the users uses whatever browser come with their mobile device or Windows install.
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