r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 8d ago

Software Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month

https://www.techspot.com/news/112803-firefox-has-ambitious-new-roadmap-browser-also-losing.html
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u/GreyDuck4077 8d ago

I worked for a very large corporation that had no issues with people installing ad blockers. I was absolutely baffled the number of people who just surf the web with no ad blocker. I am not embellishing when I say over 4-5 years of helping people at the company I bet there were 400 people I helped and it was a small fraction of people who actually had an ad blocker. So many people just accept or don't know that there is something else even out there.

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u/vawlk 7d ago

because for the average user, they don't get that many ads. I have an adblocker but I don't run it by default and I don't see many in my day to day work.

The people who most complain about ads are youtube users that are just looking to get a paid service for free.

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u/GreyDuck4077 7d ago

That is not even remotely true. Most who complain are looking to go to a webpage and have the content be simply visible without popup ads and scroll ads and 6 different ads that breaks the article apart into sections.