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We've come a long way baby (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by griD@feddit.de to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This seems like a pretty dumb thing to do to try to wipe out a browser with 2% marketshare.

[–] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The EU should investigate this

[–] what_is_a_name@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Do not worry Vestager lives for shit like this. She’ll make them bend over, take it deep, and pay her for her pleasure.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It won't stay at 2% if it's the only browser with a working adblocker.

[–] evanuggetpi 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately said browser is dependent on Google financing Mozilla.

[–] griD@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] griD@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

some explanation

To be fair, they used setTimeout() and not thread.sleep() because the latter isn't possible out of the box in JS ^^

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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