• LostXOR@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Almost as if a browser company that’s not also an advertising company has no reason to fight ad blockers.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        i mean they bought a privacy preserving ad company to offer an alternative for companies to google, which is what they should be doing.

        because like it or not people depend on ads for their sites.

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            4 months ago

            Ban billboards. Very different. And are there ones owned by the city.

            Honestly, not a huge win.

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              4 months ago

              Banning billboards is actually pretty huge. I live in Maine where billboards are banned and the mental break from being constantly forcibly advertised to is so nice. Every time I travel anywhere else I realize what a huge difference it makes.

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            4 months ago

            Sadly that news isn’t how it is right now. Picking a random spot in Grenoble using Google maps and searching for the first tram station, I find 6+ billboards.

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        4 months ago

        You can always fork firefox. People used to use website not requiring javascript at all and it worked well. Some people still use even w3m f.e. when graphics card driver goes bad after update and they need to watch some docs on the internet. Most current browser have most features you would ever need

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          4 months ago

          Forking is indeed the way forward when Mozilla loses its way a little more. For myself, I switched to Librewolf about 6 months ago, along with replacing Thunderbird with Betterbird after using it since the Phoenix days.

          I cannot remember what prompted the move to Librewolf, it may have been the AI stuff they were pushing at the time, or possibly the update that forced the tabs into my titlebar without having to go into about:config to fix it. Or the fact that Firefox was constantly pushing me to sign up for an account. There were quite a few gripes that added up over time lol

          Betterbird restored some removed things I liked pre-supernova as well as a native systray icon under Linux and that was enough motivation to make the switch.

          It is time for a new browser to enter the market. Either Ladybird or something built with Servo seems likely.