Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Google Chrome Finally Killed Ad Blockers..." video.

  1. I've been with Firefox since before they were Phoenix, then Firebird then finally Firefox. It's been really depressing watching the project be mismanaged to the point where it's barely relevant. That being said, with sidebery and multi-account containers, it is actually a pretty good browser still and the extensions are still pretty strong. Admittedly not as strong as before they started separating the processes for the actual tabs out, but still pretty good.
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  2. Don't worry, Mozilla is doing it's best to see that that doesn't happen. It amazed me watching them copying Chrome's stupid decisions. The major versions bumping multiple times a year, breaking the extensions, the way that they screwed up the UI on desktop computers to make it the same as for smaller computers. I've got a 24" screen, I'm OK having a proper set of menus at the top. That being said, I wish they wouldn't hide things like multi-account containers and sidebery as they make for a much better experience than just about anything I've seen other than Arc Browser.
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  3. This is part of why i stopped using Arc Browser and returned to Firefox. As much as I liked the tabs as bookmarks and it's way of handling spaces, the fact that it's built on Chrome means that it's beholden to whatever Google wants to do, and depending on how they go after the adblockers, it will eventually be something that's so intrusive that it can't be worked around without an extensive effort. That being said, ti's largely futile as ML tools will evolve to just cover up the ads or claim to be running when they aren't ever visible to the viewer. Even on YT, eventually it will likely be the case where people just queue up the videos and let AI identify the ads and then just watch the result later on and I'm not really sure what they could do about it. And, I doubt they care because so many of the ads that I've seeing are for outright scams.
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  4.  @ThoraeJenkins  Yes, I liked Arc Browser, but it's Chrome based and it's a right pain to export your spaces from. In fact, it can't be done at all without 3rd party software. Personally, I find Fx with sidebery to put the tabs and bookmarks on the side to be the right call and then I'll combine that with the multi-account containers to get a similar effect to Arc Browser's spaces.
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