• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    No they didn’t.

    They’re still there. Ublock origin is the god-tier adblock, and it’s still there. It’s even a Recommended by Mozilla extension.

    I know people on Lemmy often, for some reason, hate Mozilla more than Google or Microsoft, but Mozilla very much still caters to people who want to block ads, despite the disinformation on Lemmy.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think Lemmy users hate Firefox. I feel like alot of it is either people who legitimately have whatever needs they have, fulfilled by chrome more than firefox, or…it’s fucking astroturfers/fanboys.

      Edit Addendum: Also, if anything, Lemmy users fucking love Firefox.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t mean all Lemmy users. I mean a surprisingly large amount that non-stop hate on Mozilla and Firefox.

        I’ve even seen two users that hate Mozilla/Firefox so much that they wrote about it in their account bio, which I find crazy.

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          2 months ago

          Mozilla have made a series of unpopular choices, especially their enabling of telemetry for advertisers that does nothing to benefit users.

          It is no surprise some people are vocally unhappy.

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            2 months ago

            Private ads that make user tracking impossible absolutely benefits users, and the ad industry would be a lot less of a cancerous cesspit if it were the norm.

            It’s certainly been unpopular, but that’s more because most people on Lemmy don’t read past ragebait headlines and assume the worst.