If Mozilla blocks ads by default, the question isn't what Google would do, the far better question is what will the publishers do.
If big publishers start to block Firefox's User-Agent, it's game over for Firefox. And yes, publishers are increasingly more aggressive in blocking users with ad-blockers installed.
Or did you think that the content producers will simply stand by while their revenue vanishes?
Nope, not going to happen and it will be getting worse, before it gets better. Ad-block users have been ignored only because they were a minority.
Want to bet that they'll try extending the DRM support to the HTML content itself and thus make it illegal to block ads? It's going to be fun.
If Mozilla blocks ads by default, the question isn't what Google would do, the far better question is what will the publishers do.
If big publishers start to block Firefox's User-Agent, it's game over for Firefox. And yes, publishers are increasingly more aggressive in blocking users with ad-blockers installed.
Or did you think that the content producers will simply stand by while their revenue vanishes?
Nope, not going to happen and it will be getting worse, before it gets better. Ad-block users have been ignored only because they were a minority.
Want to bet that they'll try extending the DRM support to the HTML content itself and thus make it illegal to block ads? It's going to be fun.