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So ... can we like finally dismiss Google Chrome as the obviously awful idea it is and which should never have made it this far and remind all of the web devs married to it that they're doing bad things and are the reason why we can't have nice things?

Hmmm ... a web browser owned by a monopolistic advertising company ... how could that possibly go wrong??!!

• XKCD: Infrastructures

I think some people overestimate how many will migrate to Firefox in the near future over this.

• High switching cost compared to finding another extension (e.g. uBO Lite), even if the resulting experience is worse.
• Just as many Firefox users like Firefox, lots of Chrome users enjoy what they have too. They don't want to lose that.
• The kind of tech-aware person who'd switch over this is much more likely to have seen the news months ago and taken action already.

As fun as it is to imagine an Adpocalypse shocking the masses and pushing them to try out alternatives to big tech, it's also way too optimistic, I feel.

Meh. They had plenty of time to move to Firefox but they ignored all the warnings.

"The browser built to be yours"

Hahaha sure thing Google

In case anyone here needs this

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox

I'm in the process of switching to firefox on all my devices.

I've had enough of Google pushing features like this.

"intrusive ads" are the least of the problems, an adblocker is a critical part of any computer's security suite.

The internet advertisement companies wont police their ads from maleware, and untill they accept criminal and financial responsibillity when their ads cause harm to the users being served compromised ads from their networks, I won't even consider disabling my adblocker

Firefox.

This is the way.

I miss the "dont be evil" version of google. Its like, large amounts of money ruin everything

There's only 34 million uBlock Origin users on Chrome? So, billions are using Chrome without any ad-blockers? That's crazy and unsafe

It deserves mentioning that Firefox on Android supports extensions, so if you uninstall/disable the official YouTube app then add uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock you get a more tolerable experience.

At this point I am seriously wondering why people would like to use Chrome over Firefox for instance.

Advertising company makes it harder to block ads on their browser, news at 11.

Or did anyone forget that they made an explicit effort to block another ad blocking extension a while back, including blocking it from the Chrome store, blocking you from installing it manually and even blocking at least some versions of it from being manually installed in developer mode?

Ad nauseam, because it also simulated ad clicks and thus ruined their metrics.

EDIT: Fucking phone autocorrect. "as clocks" -> "ad clicks".

Stallman was right.

Used Chrome forever, switched to Firefox back when this stuff first started going down. No ragerts.

Simple solution. Don't use Chrome.

I wonder if this leaves Chrome users susceptible to ads that load malware, which has been a problem for the last decade, and a driver of adblocking extension development. You can get spyware and worms from Forbes, for instance.

Adblocking is not just a matter of a cleaner internet experience, but also of good internet hygiene

We should all probably start donating to Firefox. Isn't Google their main source of income?

There might come a time when they prefer to gut Firefox, forcing Mozilla to either reject uBlock Origin or die (or they could simply pull the plug on funding knowing they'll earn more when people go back to Chrome-based browsers)

cackles in firefox...

Huh... I couldn't tell with all the Firefox I use.

I pulled the plug on allowing chrome user agents on my domain.

Granted its tiny but I'm making people switch.

This is the juncture.

P.s. yes I know the cavaets all my services work fine tyvm.

With Google providing 80% of Mozilla's finding, I think we can all see whats going to happen next.

LibreWolf.

How long until YouTube blocks Firefox?

There's an easy fix for this. 🔥🦊