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:firefox: New Mozilla's CEO isn't very good a veiled threats:

"He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission"

theverge.com/tech/845216/mozil…

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Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.
David Pierce (The Verge)
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Matt Messinger
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Adblockers are one of the few reasons I've stuck with Firefox as long as I have.

Some recent updates fixed, then broke, then removed the widget.gtk.non-native-titlebar-buttons.enabled setting which enabled themed OS window buttons on Linux.

If they get rid of adblockers, I'm switching to Vivaldi.

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Generic Person
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Generic Person
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It's hard not to appreciate the irony of the article you linked not being viewable because I use an ad-blocker.
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Paul Fenwick
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@genericperson : If you're using Firefox then the little reader button (or whatever it's called) nicely bypasses this paywall/nagwall.
The button that I call the reader button. It's an icon that looks like a tiny page of text.
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Nick 'The Viking'
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Nick 'The Viking'
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$150 Mil?

Based on a fallacious assumption that people don't drop a burning dumpster browser 🙄

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Paul Fenwick
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@nlarson830 : Yeah, I'm guessing if Firefox were to block ad-blockers they'd see an overall revenue drop.
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