Indeed.

Make the ring ManifestV3, then it makes sense.

I would have used eowyn vs the witch king saying that no chromium browser can stop its ads... Revealing firefox with ublock as the sword.

Every story has two sides, and unfortunately the victor often writes the first history. However I do encourage reading the real LOTR story as told in the last ringbearer.

Some people pay for youtube premium+ (or whatever it’s called) and try to be oh so smug about the quality of service they get. YT with no ads. If you pay for it. I’d rather just not use youtube.

My entire IT team just uses chrome because it's what comes on our work machines.

I keep chromium installed for the few times a year I visit a page that doesn't support Firefox.

I think its convenience/ignorance. The general population isn't as tech savvy so they'll use whatever is popular/well known.

Chrome is advertised as "the fastest browser" while edge comes with every single copy of Windows by default.

The only time I ever use a chromium based browser is because Firefox still doesn’t support WebSerial

I have to use chrome and edge for work. I was specifically told we aren't approved to install Firefox..

Chrome is convenient for getting into gmail but that's about it.

Edge is comfy. Simple as. I don't use chrome because it's too resource hungry (or was last time I used it), and I see no need to switch into firefox. Especially that I have, most probably hella outdated, bias against it from around the time chrome launched. Firefox was that messy weird browser nerds used, always full of tab and bars for some reason (ones that weren't the effect of a virus).

When Edge goes with manifest update, I am aiming at Floorp.

They'll get offered ad revenue sharing and it'll be too good to pass up.

They certainly have no ideological problem with following suit.

That's already the case to some extent.

But if Firefox is the only browser where real adblocking happens, I imagine anti-adblocking will become less aggressive, which will be great news for Firefox users.

Even though Vivaldi is chromium-based, some site just don't function properly or even refuse to load, but working fine in chrome, so yeah it's already happened.

You say this like web developers don't have bosses.

Are there folks freelancing as web devs out there? Sure. Is that the majority of the web we use? Absolutely not.

Already happened. Same shit with people writing for IE over netscape or early Firefox

With the rise of tablets and smartphones a lot of those devs got rude awakenings. Then Apps and Chrome happened and they disappeared back up their own arses

I suggest to not open internet while you smoke weed

Nope. Not what if l said