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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Wouldn't people just leave? I feel like that's such an easy thing to do these days. If they are too old, they probably weren't using Chrome anyway and default to edge since its just there. I know not everyone would, but I wonder what the percentage would be in the end. They have been killing it themselves lately with the removal of the blockers. I've been on Firefox for over a decade now. If Firefox did something like this, I would be gone in a day.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Never underestimate people’s stubbornness to stick with enshittified platforms.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

completely anecdotally, but the numbers of users of ublock origin have gone up a bit since manifest v3 was released, and thus removed ad blockers.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

People haven't left yet and it's already a data collecting beast. And blocks ad blockers. And so on.

[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago

The vast majority of people will keep using whatever they are already used to unless there’s egregious changes that impact their workflows. Even then they might not move.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 days ago

Mozilla is in a death spiral.