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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government(www.brycewray.com)

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jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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Really sad. In Germany, Firefox sits comfortably at 10% market share, and actually is having a slight uptick in the last month.

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silencioso@lemmy.world
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Wait until Google implements manifest V3 and “kills” adblockers. Firefox will become cool again for the normies.

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jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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I will wait and see. We could see Google pulling it’s weight to convince publishers to start blocking Firefox. Google is not just going to sit and watch its market share shrink.

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SkySyrup@sh.itjust.works
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kid called EU anticompetitive laws:

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prole@sh.itjust.works
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Luckily for Americans, the EU actually kind of cares about monopolies and antitrust sometimes, and their market is large enough to force corporations to comply.

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crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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They will get rekt by Vestager faster than they can say “profits”

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Willer@lemmy.world
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me waiting for browser news 👀

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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Unlikely. If they are prompted to remove it, normies will do it.
The tech iliterate folk will ask relatives but not the normies.

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Willer@lemmy.world
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yea my dad would not survive not having adblock on his evenly youtube sessions XD

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Kekzkrieger@feddit.de
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People are so used to seeing ads they probably wont bother, i have friends who work in IT who just acceppt that half of the sites they visit are full of annoying flashy and intrusive ads.

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Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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Yeah but if you tell them about ad blockers and show them how to install them, and they see how much better the experience is afterwards, then they’ll bother.

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