Use Firefox. It's not much of a difference given the big picture, but makes sense to me.

I avoid Chrome based browsers for a long time now. Firefox (I use Floorp right now, but if they sell out it’s easy to switch back to pure Firefox) is not perfect but I never missed a single thing. If there is an interesting service or plugin that only works with Chrome, I press x (Surfingkeys) and move along.

Although I remain a strong advocate of Firefox and Librewolf, the statistics for browser marketshare tell me that the vast majority of users does not care about blocking ads.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/545520/market-share-of-i...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

The only way of fighting back is stop using Chrome and preferrably chromium based browsers.

I recommend using https://librewolf.net/

As a user, I prefer Firefox more than any Chrome or chromium based browsers. As a developer, chrome dev tools is just more soother to make use of.

Can we have a month per year without ads? Like Stoptober, but for ads?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stoptober-campaign-will-e...

How can Google get away with this behavior legally? I am so disappointed that the most recent antitrust lawsuit that they "lost" regarding their search engine monopoly basically forced their hand to defund their only real competitor, thus making sure that they cannot get into trouble for killing it off to cement their other monopoly on the browser market. This vertical integration of being both a browser vendor and having a massive stake in how much browsers allow users to control how content is processed should have been stopped a long time ago by forcing them to split development of Chrome into a separate company.

Yeah, fuck this. Advertising is literally the root of so many of our social problems.

Advertising has completely gutted the news and information ecosystems to the point that every site is a rage-click race to the bottom.