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I turned off my adblocker on 404 Media since I wanted to support them, I loaded one new tab in an article and it maxed my CPU at 100% for so long that I paused and had to figure out what was spiking my computer. Immediately turned it off.
They have a subscription I think. You can pay them actual money.
There's a mystery here. People hate ads. Firefox is the only major browser (save Brave?) that properly blocks ads. Yet people don't use Firefox (indeed its popularity is in free-fall). Why? Is it because they don't know about it? Or they won't go to the trouble of using any browser that isn't the one provided by default by the OS? I'm not sure. I just don't get it.
Firefox is also the only "major" browser not installed on any device by default. People with windows use edge, people with mac or ios use safari, people with android use chrome. People with linux use firefox but those are extremely few since none of the machines you buy at the store have linux. It's really that simple. Marketing realism wins over technical excellence every single time . Do you know why Valve invested…
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There's a mystery here. People hate ads. Firefox is the only major browser (save Brave?) that properly blocks ads. Yet people don't use Firefox (indeed its popularity is in free-fall). Why? Is it because they don't know about it? Or they won't go to the trouble of using any browser that isn't the one provided by default by the OS? I'm not sure. I just don't get it.
2. Nobody tests on Firefox anymore, so random sites can break.
There're some features unique to Firefox which I miss, but I like being on the be bleeding edge of tech.
Firefox has been getting noticeably better recently, so maybe I'll get back to it. If Mozilla changes its stance on local fs access and stuff, it'll be a strong signal.
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I don't know what to tell you... It most definitely does not block youtube adverts for me and never had / did... Also, I found Ublock origin updates less reliable / frequent on Brave. Since switching zero issues.
“For me” seems to be the keyword here. From what I know it works for most Brave users.
"From what I know" is epistemologically equivalent to "For me".
The title misses something more important: Firefox is and has been for a very long time the only browser who wasn't made by people trying to extract profit from you. Everything follows from this. Edge people, Chrome people have been living in a fairytale for believing that the keepers of their portal to the web were offering a product as complex and expensive as a browser without asking for anything in return. Anyone…
> Anyone knows that any company that gives you something for free will eventually want something from you Firefox is also free.
I just started using Zen (Firefox-based Arc clone) after Arc updated to Manifest V3. It's great! Last time I installed zen it was a battery hog, but it's much better now.
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Peter Theil was an angel investor in Brave. That alone is all the reason privacy-minded users need to avoid it.
Wasn't Brave also founded on the back of a bunch of Web3 nonsense? That's always what kept me away. I'm actually surprised how many fans it has. There was something else they did that was shocking a couple years ago that made me glad I never used it. I went to wikipedia to jog my memory and found this... > In 2020, the company was found to be appending affiliate referral codes to the end of certain cryptocurrency exc…
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Because Peter Thiel gave them some money, there's some secret backdoor code that's sending all your information to Palantir?
Sometimes you make decisions based on principle and future risk. Brave Software is a for-profit company that funded its start through Peter Thiel. Even if fine in the present, you cannot guarantee me the future of a Thiel-funded, VC-owned firm. Mozilla, in comparison, is a mature, non-profit with substantial goodwill and operational transparency. Everything past these details are just noise.