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Comment by gravescale | Hacker News Reader

Finally some news that makes me think the Firefox has a glimmer of hope left.

Same here, I’ll be switching to Firefox today after hearing this news.

What has been holding you back so far? It seems strange to me that so many normally quite pro-privacy, pro-FOSS, Google-sceptical people are still using Chrome to this point.

I would like to have privacy but understand that’s nearly impossible in reality. I was using Chrome mostly due to inertia, but not being able to block ads is unacceptable to me. I do most of my browsing on iOS Safari these days, but use Chrome on my work computer.

I’m unfortunately handcuffed to google due to gmail, switching seems like a monumental task and google is going to get my personal data whether I have gmail or not from AdWords, etc.

Every app there are gets worse and worse -- aka Doctorow's enshittification

So people will just take the sudden deluge of ads in stride and move on. Chances of this moving people to Firefox is slim.

Almost every adblock user will move to firefox. They didn’t install it out of boredom, cause that’s non-trivial.

I mean it is trivial, but the world fights over defaults now and there are people who only use defaults and complain when they change.

So yeah, they will move. Download an app, import userdata, reinstall extensions and blog about this hacker-news-level journey.

> reinstall extensions

I've done this journey. This step is exceptionally difficult, sometimes impossible. https://github.com/exile-center/better-trading

And it's even more difficult because I can't find a link to the original store page from an addon within firefox so I can't easily share my findings. https://i.imgur.com/zh2M9YA.png I do not see a link. Perhaps fixing that should have been a priority for Mozilla instead of a bullshit alt generator but it's AI so of course it's got priority. Instead of doing everything in their power to grow their market share ... spreadfirefox reboot when.

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