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The Adblockalypse is coming (lemmy.world)
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[–] 267 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I think Google overestimates my Internet addiction and underestimates my steadfast hatred of advertisements.

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  • [–] 55 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Been on chrome for like 12 years. Syncs across my phone, everything. I will make the switch. I have been wondering when google was going to go evil. Why not 2023 like everything else on the internet?

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  • [–] 79 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Brother they went evil when they went publicly traded.

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  • [+] 46 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Can you explain? Not familiar with this case

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago

    Essentially, the Supreme Court ruled that Henry Ford had to operate the company in the best interests of its shareholders, not his employees. It’s an awful ruling by the Supreme Court that has never been revisited.

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  • [+] -36 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    2 years from now Firefox will have blocked adblockers, and there will be chromium based browsers (not Chrome) that won't have them blocked.

    I don't see why people seem to be thinking a large company in a capitalistic landscape isn't going to side with profits. Firefox will oppose it openly right now and take the new users and then move to the same without lube and without apologies.

    Small browsers that still have some morals before going public will build browers off chromium because of its ease, and they will be able to exclude those blocks. Likely means we will be using different browsers every few years until something else changes.

    Maybe I'm pessimistic here, but anyone who just moved from Reddit to Lemmy should know that Firefox isn't the answer, it is another greed driven overlord.

    Mimicking the tokens on the otherhand... those sites we will need to boycott if possible.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.

    Mozilla is a non-profit whose mission is to keep the internet freely available and privacy focused. See https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/

    Firefox is built by open source developers who overwhelmingly have those same values. They have also been at this for many years now and have given us no real reason to doubt this commitment.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    "The majority of Mozilla's revenue is generated from search functionality included in our Firefox product through all major search partners including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, Ebay and others."

    Everything you just said was optimistic as fuck.

    750 employees, 826 million dollars in revenue a year.

    So what do they choose. Fire 700 employees and go down to 26 mill revenue?

    Edit: when the hivemind disperses and sees Firefox follow Google in using tokens and blocking ad blockers, you may not see it as one of the dumbest thing you've read before.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Makes no sense. Mozilla has no horse in the advertising race. But Google does. Almost all of Google's profits are from ads. Ads keep the entire Alphabet house of cards afloat.

    But not Mozilla. The largest connection there is them being paid for default lt search engine.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I love this quote, it exactly sums up my sentiments.

    I'm actually looking forward to it, because it will finally force me to go cold turkey on so many bullshit websites I don't need in my life anyway, which I was never able to do on my own, because the addiction simply is there. But not as strong ans my hatred of fingerprinting and advertisements.

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