> Ad-blockers have finally reached a point that the financiers of the major browsers are setting the groundwork for tightening the screws on them.
You speak with such confidence about things you obviously have no idea about. This change is driven by the massive amount of malware that threatens users of all browser with a sufficiently strong add-on API.
Can you please point me to any evidence that would suggest that this change was made even just in parts at the request of Yahoo?
Also, Firefox is free software, the only thing that belongs to Mozilla is the name. If it ever became difficult to block ads with Firefox, that brand would lose its value pretty quickly and somebody else would offer Firefox+adblocking under a different name.
You speak with such confidence about things you obviously have no idea about. This change is driven by the massive amount of malware that threatens users of all browser with a sufficiently strong add-on API.
Can you please point me to any evidence that would suggest that this change was made even just in parts at the request of Yahoo?
Also, Firefox is free software, the only thing that belongs to Mozilla is the name. If it ever became difficult to block ads with Firefox, that brand would lose its value pretty quickly and somebody else would offer Firefox+adblocking under a different name.