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Google Chrome is killing more extensions than you think - is your old favorite on the list? (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] Sliversun@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Glad that I moved to firefox 4 months ago and then to zen browser last week to avoid plugins removal. Haven’t looked back

[–] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

So, the elephant in the room is Chrome killing ad-blocking.

I think that Firefox (and Firefox forks, like Zen Browser) have low-enough marketshare that websites that depend on ad revenue may just kill support for Firefox if Firefox does permit ad blocking.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

As of February:

Chrome: 66.3%

Safari: 17.99%

Edge: 5.33%

Firefox: 2.62%

The software used to view the Web in 2025 is really mostly under the control of either Google or Apple.

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