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Well, they’ve been trying to fight the advertisers for, oh, 2 decades now; and the advertisers have basically won every fight repeatedly. This is combined with
by gjsman-1000 2y ago
Well, they’ve been trying to fight the advertisers for, oh, 2 decades now; and the advertisers have basically won every fight repeatedly. This is combined with Firefox market share declining to the point that if they do not at least somewhat placate the advertisers, the advertisers could simply block Firefox en-masse and survive. Time for a new strategy.
- roblabla 2y ago> the advertisers could simply block Firefox en-masse and survive And why would firefox users care about advertisers blocking firefox? Oh noes, ads aren’t showing up in my browser!
- squigz 2y agoI think Firefox users would care if they suddenly couldn't access a large part of the Internet on Firefox.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoBelieve me, the advertisers are probably watching the whole Manifest v3 rollout in Chrome very closely; and weighing the odds that, if they block Firefox, they’ll be able to kill it off completely and have ads for everyone.
- account42 2y agoWhy would websites bother with an arms race to block a browser barely anyone uses?
- ZhongXina 2y agoWhich two decades? They haven't even began trying to fight advertisers. There are a few browsers with aggressive ad blocker shipped out of the box; Firefox is not one of them.
- account42 2y ago> Well, they’ve been trying to fight the advertisers for, oh, 2 decades now; and the advertisers have basically won every fight repeatedly. Who has been fighting the advertisers? Mozilla? No, they haven't even included a basic ad blocker with FF, only some lackluster "tracking protection" that barely anyone is going to enable (while implementing whatever new privacy leaks Google proposes). If the advertisers have won any fights it is only because Mozilla hasn't even bothered to show up.