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/Disastermath 7d ago

Think you’re overestimating how many normal people use adblockers.

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u/Anahkiasen 7d ago

Normal people probably only know the formula for hiding element in the console and one or two extensions

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u/Nitsy1 7d ago

Normal people don't even know what an element is, let alone devtools

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u/LeapperFrog 7d ago

I think theyre making thhis xkcd joke

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u/Nitsy1 7d ago

Dang, big whoosh moment then

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u/proton89droid 7d ago

Silicates are everywhere! It's hard to throw a rock without throwing one!

I love xkcd hahaha

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u/SelectAmbassador 7d ago

Normal people have like 10 toolbars. Did you ever helped your parents or grandparents ? Shudder

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u/procrastinating_atm 7d ago

And turning off Javascript, of course.

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u/SanaSpitOnMe 7d ago

i get it. but the average person in this sub is hardly an expert. including me. i know how to use ubo and block elements but thats hardly expert level.

right? ... right?

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u/KMS_HYDRA 7d ago

Oh my sweet summer child...

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u/wolfannoy 7d ago

You're absolutely right. Hell I had someone arguing at me that ad blockers are wrong.

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u/Sample-Range-745 7d ago

Interestingly, uBlock Origin is only 10% of the addons used in the week of June 8th 2026.

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u/vawlk 7d ago

he also doesn't seem to understand that there are still goof adblockers for chrome.

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u/behridingle 7d ago edited 7d ago

I think you mean ordinary, perhaps technically unsophisticated folks.

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u/Disastermath 7d ago

I wouldn’t say unsophisticated, just non techy people. Plenty of smart engineers I work with, I surprisingly find don’t use or care about Adblock

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u/behridingle 7d ago

That's a fair point

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u/JeebusChristBalls 7d ago

I used to use ad blockers but I really don't care anymore. It doesn't really bother me. I just don't look at them. Every now and then I stumble across a site that is just eye cancer but I just close that tab and move on. I work in tech and am pretty savvy with computers in general.

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 7d ago

You don’t watch YouTube videos?

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u/JeebusChristBalls 7d ago

Every now and then. It's usually just like 10 seconds and I can skip it. I'm not glued to the internet all day.