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I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

’ve been meaning to write this one for a while, but the announcement of the Ladybird Browser Initiative makes now a particularly good time. TL;DR: Chrome is eating the web.

This market dominance allows Google to push through changes like its “Manifest V3” format for browser extensions, which coincidentally cripples ad blockers. A healthy browser ecosystem would have been able to vigorously push against features that take control from the users; instead, Mozilla caved in the hopes of maintaining Firefox market share but didn’t even get that. Wesley Moore runs some numbers in a similar post to this one, and concludes that 15 USD/month (~22.50 AUD in July 2024) is a good amount for a recurring donation.

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