I’ve been on it for over a decade. It has consistently met my needs.
I missed it. What’d they do?
Launching an android’s first browser that supports desktop extensions
Chrome is making moves to DRM the web & disable ad blockers
Never used Chrome. Been using Firefox since like forever.
Unfortunately no one is actually migrating !!
Don’t worry people will migrate when they can’t block the ads.
Maybe some? I’ve never been able to convince a “normal” person to install an ad blocker and it baffles me. Click the install button, please, I’m begging you T_T.
Those people subsidize our ability to use ad blockers, imagine if everyone used uBlock and ad companies started cracking down on it.
Nah, ads are only worth as much as it actually makes people spend on products. Whether those products are being sold by showing 5 ads or 5000 ads, does not make the ads worth more as a whole.
Companies have just been in an arms race to show ever-more ads, to get slightly more of those 5000ths of the whole cake.
Blocking ads isn’t removing any value from the system, unless you planned to click on lots of ads and buy the products behind them.Fair enough, but if no one viewed/clicked on the ads then the internet would still need money to stay operational. They would figure out a way to either serve ads or do some other heinous shit to make money. So we need idiots who refuse ad blockers.
Some people are just doomed, leave them alone, move away.
The amount of people that don’t even know what an adblocker is massively overshadows those who do.
You’re right I’m not migrating. Because I moved to Firefox quite some time ago. No regrets, excellent browser.
Awww - had me at the first half!
I just switched today
I did about a week and a half ago, largely because of learning about Google fuckery.
I was an avid Firefox user for many years. Switched to Chrome for a while when it got good. But I knew it wouldn’t last - google would find ways to break it. So I switched back to Firefox a few years ago. Haven’t looked back.
Is there any statistic about this? Like download counts over time?
I’ve been using Firefox basically since it was released. I tried Chrome but never really liked it.
Firefox is king 👑
Yeah I switched last week. There are a few things I liked in Chrome that don’t exist (tab groups, PWAs) and the inspector is a bit different for dev work but overall it’s pretty good.
One thing I did notice on Google searches is the results show the more custom result boxes for businesses, etc.
You should be able to fix Google Search with this extension, I believe: https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/google-search-fixer/
If only they’d give a desktop UI to us Android tablet amd Chromebook users like they used to.
