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It does not, and that is fine. That ship sailed a decade ago.

What they could do is something the other guys are institutionally unable or unwilling to do: build a proper user agent for power users. Radically transparent, trustworthy and extendable up the wazoo. With footguns and everything.

That gives you a comfortable moat, a raison d'être and a stock of rabid, technically inclined fans which spread the word for you to their friends, family and coworkers the next time Google tightens the thumbscrews again.

Basically: repeat what happened the last time when it was Firefox vs. IE, twenty years ago.





uBlock Origin is a selling point for everyone now that it's been kicked out of Chrome.

I recently got an M4 Mac Mini to replace a failing Windows laptop that my wife was using to access the network. Previously she was using Firefox with uBlock Origin, but she was absolutely livid after browsing the web with Safari and being harassed by horrible ads which got me to install Firefox right away.


Safari adblockers that are at least passable exist. And work on iphone, too!



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