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Switch to firefox.
get a pihole
adguard home is a great alternative
I would so love if this causes an usage spike for Firefox, so that all websites and webapps start testing for Firefox compatibility again...
The install counts for ad block extensions is surprisingly lower than you'd think.
uBlock only peaked just shy of 30M users, so much less than 1% of general users. Obviously it's not that cut and dry, but you get the idea. It's unlikely they have much influence no matter where they go.
How many of those 3 billion Chrome users were on desktop though? Mobile is the default for most of the world.
Mobile Firefox has uBlock too, at least on Android.
FF on iOS has not been given a lot of attention for a long time. Apparently this has changed, however I’m yet to see that and the issues I have with FF on iOS keeps me away. Some people try to defend Mozilla and blame Apple - and of cause there is some blame there - but other iOS browsers, including Safari, does a much better job. I’m on Vivaldi for that reason, with the latest version 8 have fixed the few annoying issues I had with it.
Isn't that just because iOS rules mean Firefox is just reskinned Safari? Or do Apple allow other browser engines now?
That’s what people keep saying (and yes, only in the EU are alternative browser engines allowed), however other browsers on iOS can create a decent browser experience. A few things that aren’t supported on FF iOS, that IMO should have been available a long time ago and stops me from using FF anywhere as I want syn mobile with my desktop browser:
For some reason, mobile FF is so bad on iOS, I keep it only to send links to my desktop or laptop.
I have uBlockOriginLite working with Safari on iOS just fine. I don't use Firefox much on mobile because Safari works fine for me in that context but I assume it would work in Firefox too.
I use Vivaldi because I’m also synchronising with Linux. Had it just been a Mac, I would been perfectly fine with Safari. I think Safari is the best browser on iOS, using Wipr with it. Safari is just so polished and it has just the features I and less cluttered than all the other browsers and everything is silky smooth and load times are super fast.
If that were true, Google wouldn't be fighting them so hard.
IDK that it's much less than 1% of general users, considering it's .4% of the total global population, and even as #1 not everyone uses Chrome on desktop (but also some people have multiple desktops...).
But your point is still valid, if the roughly 1% desktop market share shifts to FF, not a lot is likely to change.
You’re saying there are 3 billion Firefox users? That doesn’t sound right. Or you mean 3 billion chrome users?
I think they mean approximate chrome users. There's about 3.8 billion of them.
Firefox has a user base of approximately 150 million users (and that's down from 206 million in like 2024).
Fuck Firefox and it's Pro-AI shit. Firefox has its own issues too, that's why people are choosing forks of it than the main deal.