Comment on Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 weeks agoSo max 37M users possibly willing to switch away from Chrome should it not be available anymore. Not nothing.
Comment on Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 weeks agoSo max 37M users possibly willing to switch away from Chrome should it not be available anymore. Not nothing.
averyminya@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
8.2% isn’t nothing but I also wonder if it’s worth anything to Google. That would bring Firefox from ~3.3% to 11.5% of the browser market share if everyone switched to non-chromium browsers.
I just wonder if that’s enough for anything. It’s better than nothing of course, and for those users that switch there’s almost nothing but benefits, It’s more just that I have doubts about the willingness of the general public caring enough, and if 10% of people will have an effect for Firefox or against Google
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
IMO ~+10%pt just provide Google with a thicker armor against antitrust lawsuits. “Hey hey hey, can’t sue us! We have a competitor with ~15% of the market! And we helped them get there! Look at the 500 million we give them per year!”.
If Mozilla wanted to be a threat to Google, IMO they could, but they’d rather pay their CEO 5M, fire a few hundred engineers, and spend a fraction of their Google money on Firefox.
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