The more people who use Firefox the better! It’s got versions for the desktop, android, and iphone, all free. In addition to ublock origin there are thousands of addons. You could also consider using one of Mozilla’s paid products, such as their VPN, or donating to the Mozilla Foundation, in order to ensure they’re able to keep going.
Not to be Old on main but I remember this exact thing happening in the late 90s and early 00s. I remember it very well. Microsoft pushed out all the browser competition with Internet Explorer, at which point both browser and web innovation stagnated for years because why fix something that’s broken if everyone is using the broken thing anyway because there are hardly any other options. If you want to know how bad it was, Internet Explorer did not have browser tabs and it certainly did not have any sort of adblock. And everyone just lived with it.
I am watching the exact same thing happen with Chrome in real time today and that’s why I always reblog these posts and sometimes am extra annoying and add on to them. I don’t want to see it happen again because it sucked. Please use Firefox. Use it on mobile too (it has browser extensions!!! Including ad blockers!!!) And reminder that Edge/Brave/Vivaldi are all built on Chromium and you should not be using those either. Those browsers will show up as Chrome on tracking analytics and it does not help the overall project, which is showing web developers that Chrome is not the only browser people are using.
Your passwords and other useful things transfer to Firefox, btw. Go make the switch. You have nothing to lose.
Most websites that tell you they need Chrome to work are lying, even if they block you from accessing them if you’re not using Chrome. They just do not want to support the dev work to optimize for anything else, or may have a special deal with Google.
Fortunately, there are Firefox extensions that just basically tell websites “yeah, I’m definitely Chrome. don’t worry about it”
