We can only hope normal people start using firefox again and ditch the piece of cold garbage that is chrome/ium. Though i doubt most people nowadays will even think about switching browsers (like how windows still has like 75+% of market share despite its quality freefalling since win10 and the most user hostile stuff being added)
If experience gets bad enough then people will look for alternatives. IE was something like 90% of the market share at one point and then it lost it fairly rapidly.
Not sure if software enshittification really makes people switch. I wish they would but I’m not convinced. I’d say the windows freefall started after windows 7:
8 was universally agreed to be complete horseshit because they were trying to make it work for both, touch and keyboard/mouse, which obviously failed.
10 felt like a sponsored-by-ads freemium cheap spyware, adding even more inconsistencies with these different system settings windows, adding cortana which literally not a single person on earth wanted to use but was hard to disable/remove and embracing the microsoft store which is the most cursed shithole of all (including google playstore which is already bad enough).
11 Is just like 10 but takes away essential settings, making every professional users workflow 40% slower for no reason.
Win7 also had issues, but it felt much more usable for professional use. Also much less bloated with bullcrap nobody ever asked for (preinstalled candycrush anyone?). So for me that was clearly peak windows. Obviously, every half-decent linux distro was at least as good, many were better even from a pure users perspective. After that, linux desktops got better and windows got worse. Nowadays its no competition if you ask me. But still, few people swicht from the pre-installed OS…
Win2k was fun
I’m heavily anti-Windows but if I had to pick a release (and have it supported forever) Windows 2000 would be my pick. Pure NT kernel, no 9x bullshit? Sign me up.
Win7 also had issues, but it felt much more usable for professional use
What issues did you have? I remember it only being light on resources, stable, and aesthetically pleasing. The UI introduced snap-to-edge, which was such a game changer at the time and really makes Windows versions before it feel archaic in comparison. It was the last Windows version before the layout of settings stopped making sense.
I’m sure this is just rose-tinted glasses so I might be ignoring some issues, but I can’t recall anything in particular.
Yes I also remember it as pretty awesome! It had some normal windows fails, like the search in explorer searching through many file formats content instead of only just file names (which would be a reasonable default), thus being slow, needing to build a search index (doing heavy work in the background on its own, which is terrible) and making it super weird to navigate the results. And of course windows update, which was always enormously heavy and slow and required reboots. And of course hiding file extensions by default (I think they still do it. Who the fuck is so damn stupid to make this the default?! Heck, I wouldn’t even allow this setting at all).
Thinking of it, these three little examples all stayed the same or got even much worse with later versions (updates!). E.g. in win10 the explorer search is still unusable but they managed to fuck up the start menu search as well (which worked well in win7).
Been a firefox boy since 2004 here. I never liked Chrome’s UI and their hidden self-update process
And spy-ware + Trackers + system data info + location + how many hours used + what websites you use :/ Firefox is the best!! F Chrome users ew
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Or you could use a browser that’s so old that the ads don’t even load correctly.
Like un-patched IE 6.
Just turn off JavaScript. That breaks web viewing very effectively.
if only adblockers could block these Firefox ads
Cunning line. 🏆
Nice try, Chrome.
Everytime I see someone I know using chrome and getting an ad (because most adblockers in chrome are useless), I try to nudge them to the furry browser
If I lose my ad blocker it’s like losing access to the internet for me
Pretty much, and I think this highlights just how important it is to have at least two independently developed browser engines. If Chromium becomes the only game in town that would effectively let Google, which makes most of its revenue from ads, decide how we access the internet. That would be an absolutely terrible scenario to be in.
I just went to a website that gave me a full page ad with no X button to close out of it.
Hell no. Shit is going to get so bad if they remove ad-blockers. Fastest way to kill their user-base.
Block at the DNS level. It won’t matter which browser you use.
For real, NextDNS was a game changer. It’s not hard to set up either.
Does that work for the ads in YouTube videos? We have messed around with pie hole at our house but it doesn’t work for videos.
I’d even specify that. Loosing uBlock Origin on Firefox is like getting rid of the web per se.
Has anyone else had trouble with Google search on Firefox for Android recently? It freezes after it provides results so I can’t click links. Weirdly, I don’t have this issue with Chrome, Edge, or Samsung Internet.
I cannot fathom how someone can willingly sit through ads.
Yeah, no content is worth it in my opinion.
CHROME IS OBJECTIVELY BETTER WHY YOU USE FIREFOX ULYSSES - bazingas 10 years ago and probably now too
“Less money from ad revenue means more ads for you.” - Alphabet.
No chromos
no chromo
It’s not gay if you keep your blocks on
The sad part is that this meme is 100% wishful thinking. The reality is that most people will just be complicit and too lazy to enact any form of protest. We’re doomed unless we organize.
I jumped ship as soon as I heard the first rumor. Which is unusual for me but still. I’m in the mood for it. Left twitter (8k followers) for Mastodon, left Reddit (300,000 karma) for lemmy. It’s time.
The sadder part is that most people don’t even use/know about adblockers in the first place
The very saddest thing is that people don’t know Firefox is a non profit trying to protect their privacy and instead choose Chrome. It’s almost like they want to be owned and subjugated by big business.
Yesterday I switched to Piped because yt had to pause my music with an ad every 3 fucking minutes, and I can say that it was a great decision to make.
I can’t live without uBlock Origin.
