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Firefox should really bundle ublock origin as-is. I install it afterwards anyway but I don't understand Mozilla here. They seem to want to stay behind Google.
by shevy-java 3mo ago
Firefox should really bundle ublock origin as-is. I install it afterwards anyway but I don't understand Mozilla here. They seem to want to stay behind Google.
- quantummagic 3mo agoIn 2024, "search royalties" brought in approximately $585 million for Mozilla, largely from Google. It's not hard to see why they tread very lightly around ad blocking. It's actually impressive that ublock remains easy and painless to install as an extension.
- Sabinus 3mo agoWouldn't the whole point of Google propping up competition browsers to avoid antitrust be completely undermined if Google was influencing the development of said browsers?
- BobbyTables2 3mo agoImagine the loss to Google if every Firefox user’s default search engine wasn’t Google…
- mrtesthah 3mo agoThey already bundle Brave’s rust-based ad-blocker: https://shivankaul.com/blog/firefox-bundles-adblock-rust https://shivankaul.com/blog/firefox-bundles-adblock-rust