Honestly there's been more than a few hyper-derp moments from big companies like this recently. Like Facebook and their stupid metaverse program, which is called Horizons... something or other. They put absolutely insane amounts of money into it, and it comes out looking like the most soulless, low-quality thing you could get, and is completely outdone in quality and visuals by its entirely free competitor, VRChat. But Facebook's out of touch execs, as always, cant grasp the problem. Whole internet has been laughing at this for quite awhile now and it just keeps getting funnier. Last I heard, they are having to specifically order their employees to love the program. Not order them to USE it. Order them to LOVE it. It's THAT bad.
As for Google, honestly I dont think it's going to work as they think. Sooner or later someone is going to come up with a way to crack through Chrome's anti-adblock wall (and looking it up, it seems AdGuard is already getting there, which means others are soon to follow).
And those who cant get adblockers are going to get progressively more and more irritated and angry about it.
As usual, the dinosaurs that run companies like that one cant grasp the idea that shoving useless garbage into the consumer's face when they're in the middle of an exciting show is not exactly a good way to get them to buy the garbage in the ad, or continue using the platform the ad is appearing on.
I bet the guys at Firefox are really looking forward to this though. I know I would, if I were them.
I never liked Chrome anyway. No matter what computer i've ever used it on, it is ALWAYS slow and laggy and unresponsive, with or without adblock. I don't even give it extensions, either, it just is always crappy to me.
Now, FireFox, that's a web browser. I have it on my computer now and even though it still tries to act like chrome sometimes, 9 times out of 10 it does not and actually works and does what it is supposed do. Not only that but I also discovered a while back that ANY TIME I use Chrome at all, if i pull up Task Manager and go to Processes I'll see upwards of FORTY PLUS processes coming from Chrome. I wouldn't even be on a website when this happens; why does Chrome need forty of itself just to watch a 3 second youtube video?!?! I've nevr seen Firefox do that. It's mucb more reliable, and there is am adblocker out there for Firefox as well (okay there's actually hundreds but anything that's not the very top of Google is always a coinflip for taking a hit by a virus)
Exactly.
And it's one of those where you're really going to feel it if your PC is on the low end, or already experiencing issues. My machine, suffering from thermal damage and barely hanging on by the slightest thread (seriously it's nearing the point of being utterly dead), almost cant handle Chrome anymore. I can tell when it's about to go bonkers because a given Youtube video will suddenly go all "fuzzy", and it aint the connection doing it. That's a sign that I need to shut it down and let it cool off or whatever.
And yeah, I know, Firefox, but I dont have my giant wall of protective extensions on that one and am not really in the mood lately to set those up on a machine that's about to be replaced anyway. But once the new PC is here I'll probably start on it. After I get the anti-virus walls set up.
Cant wait for the new PC to get here next week.