Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by Nextgrid on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:22PM
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> Look at where Firefox gets its funding and you’ll see why they might be reluctant to ship ad blocking on their flagship product.
Great, then it means it's time to actually build a profitable business, or at least own up to their conflict of interest instead of blaming everyone for their inability to run a business without relying on handouts.
Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by therealmarv on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:45PM
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Actually Brave solved that part. It has a working business model with its opt in ad users. Actually impressive they solved it.
Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by fabrice_d on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:54PM
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I like Brave a lot, but their business model is not providing enough revenue to build a full web runtime + browser either since they are a Chrome fork.
Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by jaywalk on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:36PM
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Seriously. It seems like the only "innovation" coming out of Mozilla these days involves finding new ways to complain about their marketshare dwindling that don't involve their browser being inferior to their major competitors in many ways.
Firefox does have Firefox Focus on mobile with built in ad blocking/tracker blocking. I use it all the time yet I’m still not sure whether it allows “acceptable” ads due to general ad blindness, though I know it doesn’t block everything (which could just be due to lack of community reports for that ad type, or something).