Their absolute and stubborn refusal to implement PWA made me give up on Firefox recently.
I tried using Chrome for PWA only and using Firefox for my main browser for a while (to help their market share), but it made it very difficult because external links would open in Chrome.
I’ve found like 80% of sites I use are self hosted so I found it easier to just stop using websites with ads than dealing with Firefox 😞
The other thing people on Lemmy / Hackernews/ Reddit don’t seem to get is that people are not using laptop or desktop computers anymore. More and more people only have a phone and maybe a tablet. People with phones and tablets do not know what a browser is. It’s baked into the system. Everyone on Android is using Chrome and they very likely don’t even know it.
I use Ecosia on my phone because it has a built-in ad blocker that actually works.
I use Revanced instead of YouTube/Music so I don’t get ads and can listen to what I want (I had to change my phone’s DNS, because on data it wouldn’t let me watch or listen to anything that was marked “explicit”).
I haven’t updated my Discord app in the last couple years because I heard that one of those updates supposedly introduced ads and I said “hell no.”
This will hopefully move more people to use Firefox again.
Their absolute and stubborn refusal to implement PWA made me give up on Firefox recently.
I tried using Chrome for PWA only and using Firefox for my main browser for a while (to help their market share), but it made it very difficult because external links would open in Chrome.
I’ve found like 80% of sites I use are self hosted so I found it easier to just stop using websites with ads than dealing with Firefox 😞
All this over running web sites as apps? Why would I ever want a website as an app?
If I understand what you are saying correctly.
Maybe 0,00001% of the user base will. People don’t care, us nerds need to come to term with this
The other thing people on Lemmy / Hackernews/ Reddit don’t seem to get is that people are not using laptop or desktop computers anymore. More and more people only have a phone and maybe a tablet. People with phones and tablets do not know what a browser is. It’s baked into the system. Everyone on Android is using Chrome and they very likely don’t even know it.
I use Ecosia on my phone because it has a built-in ad blocker that actually works.
I use Revanced instead of YouTube/Music so I don’t get ads and can listen to what I want (I had to change my phone’s DNS, because on data it wouldn’t let me watch or listen to anything that was marked “explicit”).
I haven’t updated my Discord app in the last couple years because I heard that one of those updates supposedly introduced ads and I said “hell no.”
This is also why Nintendo/Ubisoft/Other Shitty Company Here is still doing well despite all the gamers saying they’d boycott them.