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Everything said in that article makes me very happy to have switched to Firefox.
Google can dress this up all they want, but a happy byproduct of this (for them) is that they can now purposefully ignore rules/filtering for their own sites, such as youtube, since it puts the real control of such filtering with the browser (and the company who created it) instead of the extension. Yes there is a trust concern with extensions. And yes, there is a performance hit with extensions vetting each network call. But that’s the price we, as the user, should continue to have the power to choose to pay, but Google is forcing us to go their way.
Great explainer about the changes, and reasons why it actually behooves Google to continue to allow ad blockers in some form. All that said…this still reaffirms my decision to go Firefox, always and forever, to get the most complete privacy options.
Firefox has been great since Quantum released. They finally fixed the performance issues and it’s still more flexible in what it can do than the Chromium browsers.
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Everything said in that article makes me very happy to have switched to Firefox.
Google can dress this up all they want, but a happy byproduct of this (for them) is that they can now purposefully ignore rules/filtering for their own sites, such as youtube, since it puts the real control of such filtering with the browser (and the company who created it) instead of the extension. Yes there is a trust concern with extensions. And yes, there is a performance hit with extensions vetting each network call. But that’s the price we, as the user, should continue to have the power to choose to pay, but Google is forcing us to go their way.
Thanks Mozilla, for providing user choice.
With the number of trackers on most sites you usually get a performance boost with an extension vetting each network call
This was an insightful read. Thanks for sharing!
Great explainer about the changes, and reasons why it actually behooves Google to continue to allow ad blockers in some form. All that said…this still reaffirms my decision to go Firefox, always and forever, to get the most complete privacy options.
I’ve used Firefox for so many years…can’t remember precisely. If there was a better option, then I’d be open to it.
Safari/GNOME Web just added extension support.
Only better option I can think of is not using the web
Yeah same, its been almost 10 years for me. I briefly tried other options like brave, but kept coming back to Firefox
Firefox has been great since Quantum released. They finally fixed the performance issues and it’s still more flexible in what it can do than the Chromium browsers.