Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by linza on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:27AM (#36875907)

I'm honestly (as in putting in multiple hours) trying to switch to Firefox every 4 to 5 months. I tried at least 4 times. I do the dance of migrating bookmarks, passwords, layout preferences, add-ons, workflows, setting up sync, installing on all Android and desktop devices ... and then i run into issues, try to fix some of them, research, then give up and go back to chrome and don't think about it anymore until another article like this pops up on HN.

This time I won't be shamed into doing it again. I don't have the time or motivation.

edit: forgot to mention explicitly, it's not Firefox, it's me. I'm not strong enough.

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by notpushkin on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:30AM (#36875945)

Can you elaborate on the issues you're running into with Firefox? Hopefully we can help you sort these out!

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by linza on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:26AM (#36891490)

I find that condescending but I'm sure you didn't mean it that way and had good intentions asking that.

The problems I experienced that can be fixed in Firefox itself probably already got fixed.

My (personal) problem with Firefox is that functionally it's not Chrome and doesn't look/feel like it. The claimed non-functional improvements (privacy, freedom, ...) DON'T make up for the difference for me personally.

If Firefox looked and felt more or less exactly like Chrome for the functional parts then I would not have any problem switching for good. It's not at the moment, so this is what stops me from adoption.

I don't propose to change anything (you did). I was merely stating why I'm not on Firefox yet as a data point.

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by notpushkin on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:30AM (#36892439)

Absolutely not intended to sound condescending, sorry if that came across that way.

I see your point and it is absolutely within your right to stay on Chrome if you don't want to change. I've found it pretty much identical in terms of functionality and UX for the past decade though. Do you have any particular functional improvements in mind that you're missing in Firefox?

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by linza on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:12AM (#36903881)

As an example: https://ibb.co/Wynn5Tg Subjectively(!) Firefox is cluttered and takes much more space than Chrome for itself. Unfocused tabs are hard for me to make out on Firefox.

I think that personally I'm a lost cause. Either give me Firefox in a Chrome's pelt or I stay with Chrome. And maybe that's good this way: Firefox should just focus on new users and make the best browser for "them".

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by ruszki on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:36AM (#36875991)

What are these issues?

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Re:Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by sgc on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:49AM (#36876138)

I am very curious as well.

I have zero issues using FF everywhere. I used to have to use Chromium every couple months because some dumb website was pulling in a library that was using some non-industry-standard thing chromium did - and everything broke due to their utter lack of testing - but even that has died down. There is a newer trend where I have to disable uBlock every once in a while to complete a task, which is just as bad, but I rarely have to actually use another browser.

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