Comment on Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

• onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It wouldn’t surprise me if they removed features to make popular extensions work. Time will tell.

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  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What do you suppose Firefox’s goal would be in removing features for the end user? Isn’t their purpose to compete with Chrome and be better?

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    • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can only guess that there is a monetary incentive. They get 400 million a year from Google. Why would you compete if you get that kind of money for being the underdog?

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      • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        you’re definitely right and it’s obvious that Mozilla can’t make Firefox as private as they advertise it because of their monetary interests (thus google is default, there are paid promotions in the home page by default, a lot of privacy features aren’t enabled by default).

        But at least they make a decent work implementing them and because it’s free software then other projects like Tor or Librewolf can enable all the privacy features, remove the trackers and release a damn good browser.

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      • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It would stand to reason that if they were as bad as Chrome, that people would just stick with Chrome and they would miss out on profit entirely, I would think. If monetary incentive is a reason, purposely hamstringing themselves seems counter-intuitive toward that goal.

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