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The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months (www.techspot.com)
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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 57 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I would so love if this causes an usage spike for Firefox, so that all websites and webapps start testing for Firefox compatibility again...

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

The install counts for ad block extensions is surprisingly lower than you'd think.

uBlock only peaked just shy of 30M users, so much less than 1% of general users. Obviously it's not that cut and dry, but you get the idea. It's unlikely they have much influence no matter where they go.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

If that were true, Google wouldn't be fighting them so hard.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

How many of those 3 billion Chrome users were on desktop though? Mobile is the default for most of the world.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago

Mobile Firefox has uBlock too, at least on Android.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 points 11 hours ago

IDK that it's much less than 1% of general users, considering it's .4% of the total global population, and even as #1 not everyone uses Chrome on desktop (but also some people have multiple desktops...).

But your point is still valid, if the roughly 1% desktop market share shifts to FF, not a lot is likely to change.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You’re saying there are 3 billion Firefox users? That doesn’t sound right. Or you mean 3 billion chrome users?

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I think they mean approximate chrome users. There's about 3.8 billion of them.

Firefox has a user base of approximately 150 million users (and that's down from 206 million in like 2024).