Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by VyseofArcadia on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:23AM (#34641337)

Yeah, there was some blowback to make the big G reconsider, but don't you worry. I'm sure they're cooking up something similarly nefarious to accomplish their goal.

Google is the world's biggest ad company. Sufficiently few people use ad blocking that I don't think it's an existential threat, but as long as the shareholders demand infinite growth, getting rid of ad blocking will be seductive to Google.

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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by jjoonathan on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:12AM (#34642046)

    The goals of the advertising business model
    do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.
    - Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
    - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

Ditto for extensible browsers.

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Re:Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now by freedude on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:06PM (#34648404)

I feel like they lost me when they got rid of "Don't be Evil" as their motto. I realized their slide down the slippery slope was well underway.

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