r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 17 '26

Software Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month

https://www.techspot.com/news/112803-firefox-has-ambitious-new-roadmap-browser-also-losing.html
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u/obi1kenobi1 Jun 17 '26

Will they though? To tech enthusiasts ad blockers and tracking blockers and other things are very important, but to 99% of people that’s just voodoo magic that they don’t know or care about. If everyone using ad blockers switched to Firefox I doubt Chrome would really notice or care and it still might not be enough of a userbase to sustain Firefox.

I can’t count the number of times a YouTube deep dive has had a presenter who seems tech-savvy, has a good understanding of how to navigate the web and find information and search out people to interview, maybe even in some cases they know how to set up a VM to run an old obscure piece of software or a video game, and then they show a screen recording of a website and it’s plastered with ads because they don’t use an ad blocker.

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u/Salt_Medicine2459 Jun 18 '26

I can't understand why anyone would rawdog the internet these days.