Lot's of happenings with Firefox this week.Since Mozilla is trying to deal with the influx of users from the manifest v3 fallout they is doing a lot of new strategies. First Firefox is switching to the "two more weeks" update model with alternating feature releases and bug fix releases, with the first two weekly updates happening in September. It is also extending the legacy ESR 115 release yet again to March 2027, as 5% of users are still using Windows 7 and more still using Intel Macs.Then Mozilla is also doing more viral marketing and sponsorships to try and get new generations of users other than the millennials who used it in the 2000s. This could all backfire as both DuckDuckGo and Brave are heavily targeting the Firefox demographics as well.
>>109243129>they is doingWhy did you ever think we want to hear from you?
>>109243129>First Firefox is switching to the "two more weeks" update model with alternating feature releases and bug fix releases, with the first two weekly updates happening in September.Wasn't this already planned or even in place for a while now? I remember hearing something like that weeks ago.
>>109243267That was Chrome
>>109243129So I know a little bit about the Manifest v3 thing. AKA Google is disabling v2 in an effort to combat adblockers since v3 supposedly kills them for good. But how is Mozilla working around this? What are they doing that is some how avoiding entire websites from blocking you entirely if you're not using v3?
Snailcat was right, stop updooting every 5 minutes you fuckheads
>>109243129>Then Mozilla is also doing more viral marketing and sponsorships to try and get new generations of usersthey did advertise on twitch heavily a few weeks ago. don't know if it worked out for them or not
>>109245254>What are they doing that is some how avoiding entire websites from blocking you entirely if you're not using v3?Is that a thing? I thought it was entirely a browser (client side) related issue.
>>109245407It's not really a thing no. Blocking people with adblockers is not as trivial as it sounds because they will find ways to circument your block. I have done it in the past and the only reliable way is to make the ads look like real content from your websites i.e. the ads should have similar urls that change regularly and are loaded from the same domain as the website content. Blocking the ads will result in blocking real website elements this way.
>>109245481I've seen a few local news sites do what you're describing. I would imagine that it's only viable because they have direct local ads (for nearby shops, fast food, services etc.) while major sites have to rely on Adsense and other such services that are instantly blocked by every adblocker. I wonder if there's a market for direct sponsorships for websites like there is for YouTube videos (of course Sponsorblock is a thing, but you still see it in the description/pinned comment).
>>109245481Perceptual adblockers and pre-buffering content
>>109245694It's gonna be a fun time once the adblock and anti-adblock AI race takes off.
>>109245878AI is just going to fuck it up by confusing what advertisements are vs actual content. It's gonna be a clusterfuck on side of anti-adblockers since adblockers are curated by actual humans.
>chrome starts accelerating their version numbers>firefox does the sameDo version numbers mean anything at all anymore
>>109243232This.
