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Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble (mashable.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Now, let's talk about adblockers... Oh, wait, Google would get upset if FF had an inbuilt adblocker and could stop giving us those $weet money...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Google stopped sponsoring, Mozilla would go down and Google would get slammed with anti-monopoly lawsuits from the EU.

So Mozilla can do whatever they want and Google won't stop sending them money. Since that is a lot more profitable in the long run.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mozilla can do whatever they want and Google won’t stop sending them money.

So... What are they waiting for? Are they going to rely on gorhill for ever?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You want Mozilla choosing what gets blocked?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Sure, as long as we still have options to disable their blocker and use a 3rd party one if we choose. It's astounding how many users don't bother to install an adblocker and it would be a massive improvement for those users who don't know better.

There's been more than one occasion that I've used a family member's PC and they have Firefox installed without a single extension, they didn't even know that extensions existed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use LibreWolf. It's Firefox with pre-installed uBlock Origin and pre-configured privacy settings. It also doesn't have any of the Firefox bloat like Pocket

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Blockers need to be an extension, keeps everyone honest.