that would completely kill Chrome and Chromium
It definitely wouldn’t. The majority of people would never know the difference. Most people use Chrome and don’t use ad blockers.
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AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unpopular opinion here: I kind of hoped they’d go through with it, as that would completely kill Chrome and Chromium. The fact that they backtracked means that they too saw that people would be massively flocking to Firefox.
moody@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Most Chrome users don’t even know what a web browser is. They would have remained on Chrome and the web would have suffered for it.
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be fair, most IE 5 and 6 users didn’t know what a web browser was either and here we are.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But that was broken and didn’t provide the right functionality. Chrome’s change breaks everything else, not itself.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Careful what you wish for.
I still think it will come out but on the down low
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
It wouldn’t. If Google only owned Chrome, then maybe. But combined with services like AdSense, Google can easily leverage people and site operators to keep using Chrome.
Firefox is losing users year over year. I think it’s beyond saving.
mathematicalMagpie@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think it’s less, “We’re worried people will flock to Firefox,” and more, “We could get in a lot of trouble for trying to force everyone onto Chrome”.