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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by alargemoose on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:18AM (#38499149)
As a Firefox user since its beta, there is? Last I checked there remain 3 browser engines left. Mozilla’s Gecko, Google’s Blink, and Apple’s Webkit. Everything else is just variants using those engines, and the vast majority of those variants (Opera, Brave, Edge, etc) are Chromium-based/using Blink. That’s not a lot of difference. If you really want to get away from chrome, your mainstream option is just Firefox. Unless you’re on a Mac, or iPhone. Where you can choose between Firefox and safari.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by jefftk on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:46AM (#38499869)
> Unless you’re on a Mac, or iPhone. Where you can choose between Firefox and Safari.

On iPhone it's all WebKit. Apple doesn't (yet!) allow Firefox to use Gecko.

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by cesarb on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:45AM (#38499866)
> Unless you’re on a Mac, or iPhone. Where you can choose between Firefox and safari.

AFAIK, you cannot, on iPhone you're forced to use Safari (all other browsers forced by Apple to be reskins of Safari).

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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by Dalewyn on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:56AM (#38499931)
Calling Firefox "mainstream" is being very generous at this point, I recall its marketshare is in the single digit percentage points.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by throwuxiytayq on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:35PM (#38500237)
How many hundreds of millions of users would you say it needs to have until you can call it mainstream non-generously?
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by BigElephant on Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:22PM (#38500682)
Maybe above single digit market share percentage?
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by idonotknowwhy on Sunday December 03, 2023 @03:08PM (#38510290)
Lots of us have to spoof the chrome UA to get shitty sites to work
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by zlg_codes on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:45PM (#38501886)
Doesn't Firefox use Quantum now? Gecko is what used XUL and it was buried when they switched to WebExtensions.

Pale Moon uses a fork of Gecko called Goanna.

SerenityOS has an independent browser in the works, and netsurf is still around.

There are options, but people have put most of their eggs into two baskets and now we're stuck with things looking mostly the same but some have antifeatures.

I want a browser with uBO's functionality simply built in. Fuck your extensions or other attempts to endrun, Google. Stop it at the source and build request filtering into browsers directly.

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