Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The biggest issue is that making a browser from scratch takes a lot of resources. It’s not cheap and takes a long time.

  We essentially have Chrome and Firefox now. And Firefox is starting to enshitify.

  We desperately need a third browser.

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  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s happening, it’s just taking a little time.

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    • MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also, even though everyone is probably aware of it, Ladybird.

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    • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even if they manage the compatibility, extensions are a big factor.

      Bitwarden, adblock, sponsor block, multi account containers, libredirect… Without those, I don’t think I would adopt.

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      • MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        All of these are pretty “enthusiast/tinkerer” stuff. Some rando that doesnt use these also won’t be touching servo or ladybird basically ever. I think they would get adapted pretty fast for use among “us”.

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not to mention googles continued attempts to enforce standards that essentially amount to a whitelist to freeze out any possible competition.

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  • JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plus firefox mostly exists because google pays them, probably so there’s no anti-trust action against them.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Google pays them the make Goigle the default search engine.

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      • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It can definitely be both at once. Could be paying an inflated amount, or they could just be doing it to keep FF alive. It’s not like helping their direct competitor provides a direct advantage, and FF would be in a lot worse of a situation without the Google money.

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    • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty sure I remember hearing that Microsoft was also the biggest funder for Netscape back in the day.

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  • knexcar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We desperately need a third browser.

    Safari?

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    • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Everyone always forgets about WebKit, and QtWebEngine. QtWebEngine is a Blink (Chromium) fork, but it’s so far from the codebase that it’s functionally different. It still does get detected as Chrome tho

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• kerthale@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let’s be very clear here. Chrome ripped off the hard work from the KDE webkit people. That is also the reason much of it is open source, because open source and volunteer contributions made it live.

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