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Nah it would make a big dent for sure.

Firefox has ~180 million users

Amount of users using adblockers is ~900 million.

It would massively change the market.

Numbers according to mozilla and statista

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Im using Firefox because fuck Google’s monopoly, but Firefox seems to care little for some stuff I think is critical, namely AV codec support. Lack of out of the box support for HEVC and a few others, which my underlying OS supports perfectly, is a big turn off.

May be time to give Opera a spin

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I wish Firefox would build a tablet/scalable interface. It’s horrible on a tablet and breaks on DeX.

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If you’re gonna use Opera anyway, why not just use Brave and disable the crypto stuff? The native adblocker on Brave is on par with uBlock Origin and performs even better. Opera is probably the worst direction you can go from where you are right now…

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There are at least 3.45 billion Chrome users (not chromium, chrome).

Out of those ~900 million adblocker users, how many are using those adblockers that let paid advertiser’s to get on a whitelist? How many are willing to make an effort to change browsers? Firefox’s 180 million users is the indicative of this, and not all of them user adblockers, so the numbers keep getting thinner.

It wouldn’t make a single dent in Chrome’s dominance.

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If every single person that uses adblock decided to move to Firefox

This is the hypothetical we are talking about. This is obviously not realistic so i dont know what your point is.

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