• @Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
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      “I’m switching from Chrome because they killed ad blocking.”

      “OMG! Firefox takes 5 seconds to even load webpages! I’ll just go back to Chrome.”

      The goal is to prevent the competition from growing.

        • Fedora
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          71 year ago

          I don’t know why this got downvoted. Google gives Mozilla a hefty paycheck to remain the default search engine on Firefox.

    • @griD@feddit.deOP
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      281 year ago

      Obviously there a people in charge now who will never understand the Streisand effect. They could have kept it quiet and just… allow… the technical adept users to do their thing. Now, they are the laughing stock and get unwanted attention. Also, from my layman understanding, this shit won’t fly in the EU at all.

      Or, to say it differently: This is the best thing to happen to Mozilla in quite a long time and I’m a fan.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
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        111 year ago

        I’m out of the loop. What happened? Did someone decompile their code and find definitive proof of a throttle for Firefox?

          • @Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world
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            Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing

            Yeah let me turn off the adblocker just for having an even more suboptimal viewing due to ads. They’re lunatics.

          • Thorned_Rose
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            31 year ago

            Thanks for the explainer! Also, Google’s response is such a crock of shit.

        • @Synthead@lemmy.world
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          171 year ago

          JavaScript is an interpreted language, so no decompilation is necessary, although this is repeatable by using a Firefox user agent.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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      I’m guessing that it’s a way for them to test if ads have been loaded after initial scripts have run, but I’m not going to dig into the code.

      Honestly, the whole ads thing is missing the point. If you desired a public video hosting platform, that needs to be a tax-funded commons. Video hosting and streaming is very expensive. Similarly, users should be donating to keep Lemmy going:

      https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

      https://patreon.com/mastodonworld