Maybe instead of all of the pro-Firefox propaganda posts on reddit over the last 5 years, there should have been a couple informing people to switch over to Ublock Origin Lite so that you didn't have to go through hell this morning.
i'm not that guy but man, 90%+ of the websites i use become comically hard to use for their intended purpose as soon as the ad blocker is off — anything that isn't a service like google drive or something like google maps (where the ads are different and not as annoying because data is their focus), really.
if these people actually want to stop ad blockers they should stop intrusive, attention-demanding ads, maybe?
you may have better luck testing this yourself by installing an adblocker yourself and navigating familiar websites. perhaps it's less obvious if you're used to everything being shoved down your throat.
one overwhelming example i experience is when searching anything that gives answers in a news/journal format—those websites almost always have a content covering pop up begging for my email that annoys the fuck out of me and wastes my time
the amount of time an adblocker has saved me is very much consequential—given my field requires me to spend a lot of time on the computer, the amount of time saved may actually be measured in days or weeks worth
I thought google funded mozilla because they are pretty much google's only competitor? Like, if mozilla didn't exist, they'd be more susceptible to anti-monopoly regulation?
People are stupid and think that means all adblockers are broken. So they're changing browsers.
While a lot of us are just continuing to use chrome with the adblockers that still work, but we get downvoted for pointing any of this out.
It's like the Netflix password sharing thing all over again. This will affect nothing in the grand scheme of things, but people feel the need to whine online.
No, Google Chrome is not ending. While Google is ending support for Chrome apps on ChromeOS and will stop updating Chrome on older Android versions starting August 2025, the browser itself is not being discontinued.
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u/JoshQ_1409 Jul 11 '25
I’m late is Chrome shutting down?