• Engywuck@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Now, let's talk about adblockers… Oh, wait, Google would get upset if FF had an inbuilt adblocker and could stop giving us those $weet money…

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      1 year ago

      If Google stopped sponsoring, Mozilla would go down and Google would get slammed with anti-monopoly lawsuits from the EU.

      So Mozilla can do whatever they want and Google won't stop sending them money. Since that is a lot more profitable in the long run.

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        1 year ago

        Mozilla can do whatever they want and Google won’t stop sending them money.

        So… What are they waiting for? Are they going to rely on gorhill for ever?

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            9 months ago

            Sure, as long as we still have options to disable their blocker and use a 3rd party one if we choose. It’s astounding how many users don’t bother to install an adblocker and it would be a massive improvement for those users who don’t know better.

            There’s been more than one occasion that I’ve used a family member’s PC and they have Firefox installed without a single extension, they didn’t even know that extensions existed.

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        1 year ago

        No way I'm giving market share to gecko and, thus, to Mozilla. I just point how how hypocrite they are. I'll keep satisfyingly using Brave.