You make an unsubstantiated claim, then fail to answer all questions about where it’s happening or who is sending you the notification and what’s involved.
I call bullshit.
Registering what with the government? Your app, phone #, account?
If there are no remaining mainstream browsers that support ad blockers that pendulum is going to take a long time to swing back.
Google doesn’t even need to get their hands dirty like that. IMO all they need to do is continue making it difficult for companies to support Firefox when designing their websites. That, in addition to making sure companies know that Google is tirelessly working to make sure Chrome won’t work with ad blockers is going to eventually kill Firefox completely.
I don’t feel bad for people who whine about “well, I have to go into the settings and change a thing”. How much did you pay for that browser again? Complacency is what keeps people in abusive ecosystems. Don’t be complacent or you’re part of the problem.
I’m having trouble making any sense of your word salad. Are you triggered because someone dared criticize a bonehead move by Mozilla, or are you upset that anyone’s using Firefox’s “abusive ecosystem” in the first place? Neither? Both?
Firefox has lost nearly all of their users and now has less than 4% of the market. Adding a “feature” that makes computers virtually unusable without any indication as to why is yet another reason that’s happened. Nevertheless, if poor implementation of a feature makes for an “abusive ecosystem” it means that by your definition all software is part of an abusive ecosystem.
Interesting running those… Haven’t had to worry about benchmarks on my system, both Chrome and FF are plenty fast. I do wonder how the performance of Chrome with ads would compare to Firefox with the same ads blocked? Every once in a while I use some one else’s computer and can’t believe how many animated ads show up on pages I frequent.
Do you just put up with the ads or block them another way?
Mozilla thought it would be a great idea to install AI features in Firefox and that brilliant decision may be causing your issue. Those AI features use an absurd amount of resources on some websites and when they’re enabled on my laptop, FF regularly shows ~50% CPU.
When all that BS is turned off CPU use drops to less than 2% most of the time. Search for “AI Controls” in settings and try shutting them all off.
For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.
What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.
The bad news is, if you’re not on Team Tux, you’re going to have to pay $60 for Brave Origin. Granted, you only need to buy it once, and you’ll get unlimited activations across all of your devices.
It’s amazing people still believe this BS.
Let’s see here…
These are all known problems and there have been many, many more. I’ve had to shut off a bunch of features that I bought the phone for, block notifications and repeatedly go into Developer Settings to deal with all the issues. The Pixel 10 is the best advertisement for an Iphone that I’ve ever seen and I’d never recommend it.
Borrowed $250k ($550k in today’s money) from his family to start Amazon, has so much money now that money has ceased to have meaning. This asshole has never lived a normal life and yet he thinks he knows what kind of problems people are facing today.
I have long believed no one at Google actually uses their products. After buying a Pixel 10 and dealing with the ridiculous number of severe bugs they released with Android 16 I’m sure of it.
Let the enshittification begin.
That will absolutely decimate Oregon’s job market when companies take all 20 data center jobs to another state.
If it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
The problem is there are plenty of people out there (especially Magats) who are easily convinced the duck isn’t there at all. You know… morons.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that the preorder page is still up and taking stealing magat’s money.
The only people surprised by this are magats, but they’d still vote for the child rapist again.
This is like holding a car manufacturer liable when a teenager drives to a liquor store and uses a fake ID.
You logged in yesterday and there was no response. It seemed you were ignoring the questions. Sorry to make that assumption.
You’re right, that’s really disturbing and there’s no reason to verify age for every single app. It’s just another government shot across the bow for open source apps.