Former Mozilla exec : Google has sabotaged Firefox for years | ZDNET
▻https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years
A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome’s adoption.
Cet article ressort suite à ça :
▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858
From reddit discussion (▻https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/17ywbjj/comment/k9...):
> To clarify it more, it’s simply this code in their polymer script link:
> setTimeout(function() { c(); a.resolve(1) }, 5E3);
> which doesn’t do anything except making you wait 5s (5E3 = 5000ms = 5s).
Ca dit aussi :
As far as I understand, this code is a part of the anti-adblocker code that (slowly) constructs an HTML fragment
Puis aussi :
Why is it only trying to detect ads when the user agent is Firefox?
Bref, c’est tout chaud, et ça rentre à priori dans la lutte anti-adblockers, avec effets collatéraux malheureux.