![]() The only situation where it would make sense for Firefox to dedicate resources to a built-in adblocker would be if Raymond Hill suddenly decided he didn't want to work on uBlock Origin any more and either nobody steps up to replace him or anyone that does is not as good and potentially ends up trashing the extension or they have nefarious intentions in mind and use it to save people's browsing history to a remote server (basically what happened to Nano Adblocker, a fork of uBlock Origin). Given the bulk of Firefox's income still comes from payments from Google in exchange for making Google the default search engine, having a built-in adblocker that is on by default might antagonise Google and might make for some awkward conversations between Google and Mozilla, given the former's core business is advertising and user behaviour tracking to target aforementioned advertising. This will also take Firefox development resources away from core browser development just to build something that probably wouldn't be as good as uBlock Origin.Ģ. UBlock Origin is mature and has been iterated upon for many years by Raymond Hill and many other open source contributors. A built-in adblocker would never be as good as uBlock Origin. I have been an avid user of uBlock Origin for years, however I am against having a built-in adblocker.ġ.
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