I think it would be an interesting statistic to know the number of Firefox users versus the number of Firefox users that do NOT have an ad blocker installed.
The late comer executives to Google seem content with burning it all to the ground and pursuing "be evil" at all cost. I think Google is too big at this point to ever disappear, but it seems like it's ripe for a reset for their business model. They do have products that are actually good, but there's a disease in the company that if it doesn't help ads it's a problem. It would be nice if all this anti ad blocker bull shit ends up with another IE moment with people switching back to Firefox to bring Chrome in line.
I'm not super hopeful because there are so many shitty boot camp JS devs now that would rather advocate for blocking non Chromium browsers over adhering to standards and figuring out why their bad code isn't working, but one can hope.
The late comer executives to Google seem content with burning it all to the ground and pursuing "be evil" at all cost. I think Google is too big at this point to ever disappear, but it seems like it's ripe for a reset for their business model. They do have products that are actually good, but there's a disease in the company that if it doesn't help ads it's a problem. It would be nice if all this anti ad blocker bull shit ends up with another IE moment with people switching back to Firefox to bring Chrome in line.
I'm not super hopeful because there are so many shitty boot camp JS devs now that would rather advocate for blocking non Chromium browsers over adhering to standards and figuring out why their bad code isn't working, but one can hope.