Proof again that we never learn from the past. MSFT made Firefox take off because they made IE suck so hard, Mozilla have tried ever since to make us not use it but some of us are spiteful and use it anyway.
Time to get a job with Mozilla and try to change them from within. Make Firefox a popular and useful, privacy friendly, extensible, user focussed piece of FOSS.
I'm bitter because Phoenix/Firebird were so promising and the geeks loved them for standards and openness.
I'm not aware that Mozilla's financial situation has improved significantly since then. In fact, many tech employers are cutting back hiring right now, most prominently Google and Apple. (Note that Mozilla itself is financed heavily by Google Search money.)
Not able to find any official sources on this. Although it won't be too surprising when it eventually happens, considering this is already the status quo on chrome for Android (except kiwi)
Went out of my way to install Firefox for this exact reason.
Any reliable numbers on what's the install base on ublock origin ?
Because just like working in tobacco marketing it is something most people don't like talking about?
PS: Personally I have nothing against a website agreeing with a company they love to include a banner linking to their software. I don't hate ads, I hate omnipresent tracking of everything I do across the internet and I hate the resulting sluggishness that comes from loading and executing tracking and ad-serving logic.
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[ 0.16 ms ] story [ 71.8 ms ] threadThe joys of a monopoly web browser.
Proof again that we never learn from the past. MSFT made Firefox take off because they made IE suck so hard, Mozilla have tried ever since to make us not use it but some of us are spiteful and use it anyway.
Time to get a job with Mozilla and try to change them from within. Make Firefox a popular and useful, privacy friendly, extensible, user focussed piece of FOSS.
I'm bitter because Phoenix/Firebird were so promising and the geeks loved them for standards and openness.
Good luck with that. "Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money" https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-...
I'm not aware that Mozilla's financial situation has improved significantly since then. In fact, many tech employers are cutting back hiring right now, most prominently Google and Apple. (Note that Mozilla itself is financed heavily by Google Search money.)
Went out of my way to install Firefox for this exact reason.
Any reliable numbers on what's the install base on ublock origin ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32591738
> Any reliable numbers on what's the install base on ublock origin ?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
> see this on reddit
> wonder why it's not on HN
> realise it's nowhere else on reddit either and the meme thread has no links
> courious.jpg
> check out comments
> turns out it's just the old declarativeWebRequest story after a few more rounds of telephone
> nothingtoseehere.gif
> a day later
> see it trending on HN
> circleoflife.avi
PS: Personally I have nothing against a website agreeing with a company they love to include a banner linking to their software. I don't hate ads, I hate omnipresent tracking of everything I do across the internet and I hate the resulting sluggishness that comes from loading and executing tracking and ad-serving logic.