re: #40 dog philosopher

i used to think the future would be a technological paradise, but apparently it will just be plastered with ads

Since Firefox is an open-source project, if the Mozilla Foundation goes through with this, I can see a major (ad-free) fork of the web browser that will likely be released simultaneously with the ad-ware version.
Also, because Google Chrome (and the open-source Chromium) web browser is now the most popular both in North America as well as worldwide (it passed IE’s market share in 2013), going ad-supported may be the beginning of the end for Firefox.