Who do you want to buy Chrome?

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I agree broadly here. Things have to be able to pay their way, and some kind of identifiable and understandable revenue stream gives me faith in the service’s longevity.

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Who do you want to buy Chrome?

As long as it’s not Amazon, I’m apathetic.

I would rather pay not to see ads. And yet there are services out there that still show you ads; for example, if you pay for Prime Video or many of the other streaming services. I’m thoroughly sick of seeing gambling ads.

I don’t want to see ads for fake hentai games. Or…real hentai games, for that matter. I don’t need to know one weird trick for reducing belly fat or enlarging other parts of my body.

But here are some contexts in which I don’t mind seeing ads:

  • Trailers at my local cinema. I’d rather not sit through 20 minutes worth of them every visit, but I don’t mind seeing some ads for movies I might like. Though I could do without the candy bar ad.
  • Royalroad’s ads for stories I might like. It makes sense, even if I rarely find myself interested in them.
  • At the end of a manga volume on one of these digital manga sites like Pixiv or Bookwalker, I’d love to see ads for manga like the one I just read. Could be interesting!
  • Likewise, I find value in seeing “similar manga” below the sales page for a manga. Goes for other books, too.

But I don’t feel the same way about YouTube recommendations, so I block them.

I think the common thread here is that most of the ads I find value in don’t stand in the way of something I’m trying to watch or read. The exception being movie trailers, but I charitably see that as part of the experience. I’d rather not be tracked in any case.

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DuckDuckGo.
I want DuckDuckGo to buy Chrome.

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All system add-ons are now built-in add-ons packaged in the omni jar

Note that the file is:

/usr/lib64/firefox/omni.ja

But you will see it referred to in many different, but valid, ways.

System add-on updates are served via Mozilla’s Automatic Update Service (AUS, aka Balrog). These are installed into the users profile under the features directory.

December 2020

The two omni.ja archives are signed in current release (they contain a META-INF folder), so it isn’t possible to edit them.

September 2016

Last week, Andy McKay posted skeptical thoughts about whether Firefox system addons (also known as go-faster addons) should be required to use the WebExtensions API surface. I believe that all Firefox gofaster addons, as well as our Test Pilot experiments and SHIELD studies, should use WebExtensions.

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Who cares who buys Chrome?

There are multiple alternative browsers that are based on Chromium. Just use one of those, if you care for your privacy.

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I’m unsure of what would actually happen, as it’s very hard to predict and this stuff hasn’t been settled yet, but who buys Chrome is a very important question as many people are using Chrome. You or I can quite happily make choices for ourselves and care about our individual privacy or the way in which we personally make a change away from Big Tech, but at the end of the day it requires a lot of people to actually have an effect.

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