• Chobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        11 months ago

        Maybe some? I’ve never been able to convince a “normal” person to install an ad blocker and it baffles me. Click the install button, please, I’m begging you T_T.

        • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          11 months ago

          Those people subsidize our ability to use ad blockers, imagine if everyone used uBlock and ad companies started cracking down on it.

          • Knusper@feddit.de
            4·
            11 months ago

            Nah, ads are only worth as much as it actually makes people spend on products. Whether those products are being sold by showing 5 ads or 5000 ads, does not make the ads worth more as a whole.

            Companies have just been in an arms race to show ever-more ads, to get slightly more of those 5000ths of the whole cake.
            Blocking ads isn’t removing any value from the system, unless you planned to click on lots of ads and buy the products behind them.

            • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              Fair enough, but if no one viewed/clicked on the ads then the internet would still need money to stay operational. They would figure out a way to either serve ads or do some other heinous shit to make money. So we need idiots who refuse ad blockers.

      • Virkkunen@kbin.social
        3·
        11 months ago

        The amount of people that don’t even know what an adblocker is massively overshadows those who do.

    • RobMyBot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

      You’re right I’m not migrating. Because I moved to Firefox quite some time ago. No regrets, excellent browser.

    • cassetti@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      I was an avid Firefox user for many years. Switched to Chrome for a while when it got good. But I knew it wouldn’t last - google would find ways to break it. So I switched back to Firefox a few years ago. Haven’t looked back.

      • panCat@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I have always been a FF user and now I am using librewolf as my primary and FF as secondary , and except my family ( we run linux at all home PCs) , i dont know many who use FF or even adblockers tbh ! I remember telling a frnd that adblocks exist and he was flabbergasted , did not install one tho !

        • cassetti@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          Lol, oh don’t get me started on ads. I loathe ads to the point where I have a router-level ad blocking to filter them out (I don’t use it but piHole but that’s a great option for the DIYer out there). That combined with my FF uBlock origin extension and I see very few ads anywhere online

  • alansuspect@aussie.zone
    4·
    11 months ago

    Yeah I switched last week. There are a few things I liked in Chrome that don’t exist (tab groups, PWAs) and the inspector is a bit different for dev work but overall it’s pretty good.

    One thing I did notice on Google searches is the results show the more custom result boxes for businesses, etc.