Not gonna lie, unlike just of you guys I don’t really care for ad blocking. I pay for YouTube premium and other sites I visit I don’t really get bothered by it.
However I’m more disturbed about the overreach this is and the control we’re giving to Google or whoever. That’s the reason I use Firefox.
Its like a ransom if the stakes were as low as possible. They hold your state of non-annoyance hostage and ask for a negligible amount for it so no one gets emotionally involved in this exchange regardless of whether or not they wanna pay the ransom. Instead of subterfuge or the threat of violence they “get away with it” by nature of being generally inconsequential.
All this to say, seeing as you payed the “ransom”, I would personally describe you as more bothered by ads than anyone else. Not a value judgement, just an observation.
In order of least to most bothered by ads, doesn’t it make sense to assume
People who watch ads (unbothered)
People who install adblockers (somewhat bothered)
People that pay money to remove ads (extremely bothered)
I know that the jump to chrom was aided by a number of factors, with one of the bigger ones being how fluid technology use was at the time. Everything was new and anything could become number 1.
Still it’s so frustrating that when firefox had the memory leak and “took a long time to launch” the web was flooded with complaints and people jumping to chrome and congratulating google on what a modern browser they built.
Meanwhile everytime chrome gets caught with high memory usage, pushing their own web standards, or destroying adblock and a free web as we know it, the internet as a whole shrugs as if there isnt anything that can be done.
Remember Google AMP? And Google was proxying sites that implemented it? That shit would have been so abused if it had reached as critical mass as Chrome
My foot’s already half way out the door. I have all my plugins and password manager ready to go when I end up making the switch.
The only annoying thing right now is, there’s no tab groups on Firefox, and Google sites like Gmail and calendar have a weird aesthetic behavior where scroll bars show up where they shouldn’t be. It’s like nails on a chalkboard but for my eyes.
I also really do like using GPay in Chrome on Mobile when it’s available but I’ll have to forego that, or just use it when I need to.
Sidenote, Google knows it’s coming too cuz they made their password manager much better, and released passkey support. The timing is too perfect, they want another reason for people to stay. Good thing I have my own password manager!
It was actually one of the most W3C compliant browsers there is, more so than chromium based ones. Unfortunately google’s near monopoly has made websites focus on working in chrome, not on standards.
And also at the very least you had another option. Which, in my opinion, wasn’t that bad, at least it could’ve been if they just gave up on Bing and MSN.
No way, they can’t give up on bing. They do that and all we have is Google for searches. We need the competition. For MSN, it’s all about content now, I kinda like that branding… It makes it easier to see that I don’t want to see it.
As a web developer, EdgeHTML was the source of so many bugs, including a few that were regressions, and it didn’t seem like Microsoft dedicated enough resources to the Edge project.
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