• m-p{3}
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    561 year ago

    I’d hope this would lead to a mass-migration to Firefox…

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Normal people don’t care about ads. Every time I tell someone I hate ads they look at me like an alien.

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        1 year ago

        “What, you don’t have patients?” No, I just respect my time more than that. I’m going to waste it on my terms.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I wonder if people refuse to switch cars because the other model/brand is “totally different” than what they drive… Like, it has a steering wheel, gas pedal, brake pedal in the regular location, wtf else do you need?? A browser is a browser is a browser to me. I don’t get it.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Yes, most people do refuse to switch cars. They will drive and repair their current one until it breaks, although it is for economic reasons. Similarly, people won’t bother switching banks even if you pay them; most banks in the US offer $200-300 signing bonuses. You’ll also see that people don’t switch jobs even if they would get a 5-10% pay rise doing the same tasks. People won’t go to different grocery stores even if they’re a similar distance away and the other store offers better selection or prices. Hell, people won’t even bother switching toothpaste brands.

      • teft
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        People used to be used to using internet explorer and Netscape navigator. Times change.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      51 year ago

      I use Firefox, but it doesn’t work everywhere. Some financial sites, and Ticketmaster won’t let you use Firefox. It’s bullshit, but that’s the way it is.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen
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          41 year ago

          I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. You can’t just say “fuck off” if your bank requires another browser, or if you want to go to an event and the only place to get tickets is Ticketmaster. It’s not right, but you have to use a browser that works.

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            Oh yeah I can, I’m petty af. Like ridiculously petty. I’ve changed banks for weaker reasons than that. If my bank didn’t support Firefox, id switch banks in a heartbeat.

          • m-p{3}
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            61 year ago

            I complained to my bank about an incompatibility once and they actually acknowledged and fixed it. Sometimes they just aren’t aware. If they did not care I would have considered switching bank.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            99% of the time you just use an extension that can tell the site you’re on Chrome and it works anyway

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            Remember that it is purely an artificial limitation. The web has open standards that either browser should be (and is) fully capable of delivering even damn videogames in the browser.

            The ONLY reason businesses limit the browser is either because they’re being lazy fucks and don’t want to test on more than two or three browsers and whitelist what they test… Or they’re doing shady sh*t that requires some APIs these guys talk about (not the exact same ones, but same idea).

            There are ways to transpile and use polyfills automatically so that even the craziest crap works across all browsers: The only reasons to not support it are bad ones.

            • SokathHisEyesOpen
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              31 year ago

              I think in most cases it’s just laziness, cheapness, or incompetence. I feel pretty confident in saying that with Ticketmaster it’s because they want all of your information and Firefox is harder to exploit.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              I’ve grown petty and pissed off at companies, so if it was me I’d find a new bank immediately and blacklist them for any future relationship. It doesn’t even matter that it can be handled by tech knowledge and workarounds, the principle is that it shouldn’t need it in the first place.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I ordered tickets through Ticketmaster on Firefox recently. Don’t know if that’s a recent change, but it worked fine for me.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen
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          11 year ago

          It has never worked for me through Firefox mobile. I haven’t tried on the desktop, but maybe it works there. Every time a friend sends me baseball tickets I have to copy the link and paste it into chrome to get them.

    • Naich
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      31 year ago

      I’ve already gone there. I can’t browse without an ad blocker.