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What excuses remain for sustaining the chromium monopoly that allows this shitshow, and for using chrome and chromium derived browsers instead of firefox?
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It's IE all over again. Sometimes you can't.
IE was technically garbage and people eagerly wanted to get away from it as it broke sites. Sites are now mostly built and tested on Chrome. Firefox breaks sites.
Question: Is it possible to run ad blocking at the OS level rather than in the browser? Requests to ad servers just never leave your PC? traffic from ad servers just never arrives at the browser?
Question: Is it possible to run ad blocking at the OS level rather than in the browser? Requests to ad servers just never leave your PC? traffic from ad servers just never arrives at the browser?
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Every app there are gets worse and worse -- aka Doctorow's enshittification So people will just take the sudden deluge of ads in stride and move on. Chances of this moving people to Firefox is slim.
Almost every adblock user will move to firefox. They didn’t install it out of boredom, cause that’s non-trivial. I mean it is trivial, but the world fights over defaults now and there are people who only use defaults and complain when they change. So yeah, they will move. Download an app, import userdata, reinstall extensions and blog about this hacker-news-level journey.
I've done this journey. This step is exceptionally difficult, sometimes impossible. https://github.com/exile-center/better-trading
And it's even more difficult because I can't find a link to the original store page from an addon within firefox so I can't easily share my findings. https://i.imgur.com/zh2M9YA.png I do not see a link. Perhaps fixing that should have been a priority for Mozilla instead of a bullshit alt generator but it's AI so of course it's got priority. Instead of doing everything in their power to grow their market share ... spreadfirefox reboot when.
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There will be a switch available ... but only for a period of time before the functionality is completely removed
And apparently, as per this post, only available to folks who are savvy with the command-line.
Or use firefox, it will always support adblockers.
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And apparently, as per this post, only available to folks who are savvy with the command-line.
No, use a chromium derived browser, like https://github.com/win32ss/supermium . Or use firefox, it will always support adblockers.
It's not so shiny any longer.
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After the XUL removal debacle a number of years ago, I can't trust Firefox to offer a suitably flexible and capable extension system over the long run. While some people will claim that those changes were necessary, the impact was still very negative for the extension developers and users who were affected at the time. The numerous other user-hostile decisions made by Firefox's developers certainly don't help repair…
If this is about trust, Google is by far less trustworthy. Firefox is a flawed option vs. a shitty non-starter option.
