i have no intention to move from firefox to chrome, due to the spyware that comes packaged with chrome.

no, i mean google spyware. installing chrome on your system is basically like installing a trojan for google. and, because i exclusively use older machines, all of the bloat is a substantive problem.

but, i'm going to hope that firefox follows their lead on this point. because, i don't really run ad blockers to block the ads - i'm post-paradoxical on the ads, i don't even see them - but because the ad blocker dramatically increases the responsiveness and speed of the browser.

i came to this conclusion about the ads quite some time ago, though, when i was walking past a billboard. i realized that i'd walked past that billboard at least 500 times, and had never taken the time to read it. this is why they make the ads invasive in the first place, of course.

but, in a situation where the ads are purely text? i won't even notice that they're there.

rather, i suspect that google is beginning to realize that it's business model is really very delicate, and not due to ad blockers but due to the actual efficacy of the delivery method.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/critics-wary-as-google-s-chrome-begins-an-ad-crackdown-1.3803866

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.