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alpaca128 on July 31, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019

Instead of reworking the UI they should have just added an ad blocker out of the box (preinstall uBlock Origin for example).

The main reason Brave is used and recommended is because a lot of people don't want to bother installing plugins. At least 90% of recommendations for that browser I've seen mention this as reason. Meanwhile most people either don't like the new Firefox UI or just don't care.

And I agree, FF Send was great. It was really convenient to transfer a big file in a pinch without having to setup some cloud sync app with registration etc.

arepublicadoceu on July 31, 2021 [–]

> they should have just added an ad blocker out of the box (preinstall uBlock Origin for example).

Yeah, that’s not gonna happen. They would antagonize their biggest “donor” google.

And god knows they really need that huge yearly money influx to whatever the heck they do with that money.

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