It's a tradegy antitrust enforcement isn't forbidding advertising networks owning / having undue influence on browsers.
I think this is heading to a point where lot of power users are simply not updating their browsers any more.
Personally I'll take the miniscule chance of being infected with malware due to a security bug on an older version of Firefox over the inability to run uBlock Origin any day. I can recover from malware installation. I can not use the web without an ad blocker.
What I'll probably do is use an isolated sandbox environment for any web browsing I need absolute security (e.g. online banking/shopping).
But that is about google fucking over advertisers. Helping advertisers doesn't help me because I don't want to see any ads. Meanwhile the decline of end-user options in browsers remains completely ignored by anti-trus authorities even though that's what got Microsoft/IE slapped in the past.
I think this is heading to a point where lot of power users are simply not updating their browsers any more.
Personally I'll take the miniscule chance of being infected with malware due to a security bug on an older version of Firefox over the inability to run uBlock Origin any day. I can recover from malware installation. I can not use the web without an ad blocker.
What I'll probably do is use an isolated sandbox environment for any web browsing I need absolute security (e.g. online banking/shopping).