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Comment by FigurativeVoid | Hacker News Reader

I had no idea how many ads load the average page. I just forgot because I have been using uBlock for so long.

I have been hesitant to use Firefox, just because I am used to chrome. But after Google forcibly disabled software that I chose to run, I'm all in on Firefox.

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Whenever I use my partner's iPhone, or even open links on Chrome on my phone (I usually use Firefox with adblock) I feel like I'm being slapped in the face by ads. The difference is shocking.

Mobile web today is like going back to dialup with the time it takes to load a damn article chock full of ads. Worthless. So much for lite mobile websites. Hate browsing on the phone. Only to be done when completely unavoidable.

A decade ago I used to see & hear various ads throughout my day and could ignore them. Nowadays I see so few ads in a month that my brain short circuits whenever somebody shows me their phone with something like youtube and it shows ads.

I pulled the trigger on a full Firefox migration a few months ago because of ublock.

Google Chrome had browser change inertia going for it, nothing else.

Even using pihole you see this. I remember a post on reddit, just about every comment was complaining about the ads and how it made it unreadable but it looked just fine to me.

In a way, an ad company disabling adblock on their browser makes perfect sense.

I'm happy they came around and showed the world what they're made of: ads.

For anyone who doesn't like ads jammed down their throat and their personal privacy blatantly sold off:

Google and Microsoft should be banned for obvious reasons.

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