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They already support uBlock origin and that’s all I need.
Whoa 🤯. Never realized this somehow. That’s awesome. No ads on mobile.
Dark Reader too
On android I find its also a good idea to have a system wide ad blocker solution because android and all their apps are so inundated by ads, so I recommend dns66 (which can be found on fdroid) which has multiple blocklists you can subscribe to. This will cover some ads thats are built directly into apps and almost all ads that would appear in websites on a browser. This helps a lot since some apps will open a browser window for -reasons- and they sometimes have their own internal browser or they will just use chrome by default, not respecting your default browser choice, and in those cases you cant have ublock installed to protect you and those pages are so ad-overloaded that finding what you are looking for is next to impossible.
Yeah I wish I could edit my hosts file for example so it blocks all advertisement websites.
Try Blokada
I’m using dns.adguard.com as private dns provider in Android s network settings. Am i doing it wrong? I never see ads in any apps or browsers though… they are blocked everywhere
Seems like many people aren’t aware that’s an option
I’ve got a Pihole set up running on my NAS but unfortunately it’s really difficult to find ad tracking lists that both 1) block ads effectively and 2) don’t break a large portion of webpages
I would kill for this on iOS. Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty happy with my Safari Extensions, but I’d rather have uBlock Origin, Stylish etc.
Holy Fuck. Call me Ramsay, Finally some delicious fucking tech. the separation gap between mobile and pc has been going on for far too long. anything to help merge the pair. yes. all the yes.
It has been for years, no? Or was it mobile-tagged extensions?
Limited to mobile add-ons.
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Vivaldi would be kind of cool if not for the chromium thing being a huge downer… but I gotta say, their featureset is slightly weird.
Firefox on android though? Is great.
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Remember when different browsers used to have different rendering engines?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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But not on ios…How do we get adblocking in ios?
Firefox on iOS is just safari with a Firefox logo
The weird thing is Safari has extensions
You don’t lol. Beg Tim Apple for it.
safari has been able to do this for years
VivaldiI meant Kiwi (chromium) also uses the regular chrome web store.Also, I thought there was a previous version of Firefox Mobile that had access to the desktop add-ons site.
Firefox mobile used to have mobile add-ons but it was separate and naturally therefore more limited.
I thought add-ons were supported in ff mobile, too… I don’t use it, but I’m sure I’ve heard about it…
It supports mobile extensions but not the same desktop browser extensions
oh, I see. well, now it will, which is good
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I use Firefox and on my android tablet but I dont on my iphone since apple doesn’t allow extensions on third party browsers. Its so annoying
It’s long overdue. I’ve been running Nightly to get around the shockingly limited number of addons available on Firefox for Android. Hopefully Mozzila don’t fumble the bag with this as its a great opportunity to steal users from Chrome.
I do find it funny when people talk about how few extensions are supported, when it has the best extension support of any mobile browser.
Like I get it, but still.
It used to be able to support all desktop addons but they for some reason took that away a while back
The reason was they completely rewrote the mobile browser.
I didn’t know it was a mass rewrite, I just assumed they ruined the UI and features to “keep” up with mobile chrome, as most of these big tech companies do
Relative to desktop, it is comparatively few.
Best on mobile, yes. The few they allow in FFfA stable is a tiny amount considering how many actually can work, but Mozilla arbitrarily decided they won’t allow.
Any reason to switch from Fennec?
Don’t think so. Fennec has been doing a great job all through, I’ll stick to it unless there’s any breaking issue in the future.
Wont Feddec support mobile extensions in the future?
Fennec supports add-ons since forever ago. I’ve been using it for 3+ years with a full set of my desktop add-ons installed.
Maybe I’ll stop using Brave. Sounds cool af
I’ll be impressed when they actually allow for the installation of extensions from places other than their addon store like I can on the desktop version. Maybe in another 5 years, if Mozilla lasts that long.
Iceraven already has extensions so it’s not the first.
This guys are just amazing!
Oh my goodness that would be amazing. I’ll drop safari in an instant.
Unfortunatly, this will not be the case on iOS as Apple doesn’t allow third-party browser engines and stores
The EU is working on opening that up at least so there is a light at the end of the tunnel for those users
Bummer.
I might get me a damn android.
I’m just buried in their ecosystem. Gah. I’ve been using apple computers and phones since I was a kid. I started on the Quadra 650.
My last mac (which I still use for music recording) was a 2012 Mac Pro. I’ve pretty much gone all in on the phones these days with a Steam Deck as my primary computer but definitely my secondary device.
I have photos on iCloud going back to about 2014 when I stopped jailbreaking my phones. Moving all of that would be no fun at all. Getting used to a new OS wouldn’t be any fun either. I hate doing anything on my uncle’s Samsung.
I really wish there was a third alternative. A good Linux distro centered around phones or something.
I also used iPhones for a long time until I had to switch to a temporary phone due to age-related hardware malfunction. Out of curiosity, I tried /e/ OS and was very pleasantly surprised.
The temporary phone is now in use for at least a year and I also get to enjoy other extraordinary features like USB-C and a headphone-jack. In the future, I may also give LineageOS a try.
I’m an iPhone man, but if weren’t I would be using Google Pixels.
It’s the most polished Android experience I’ve seen so far, and you can do literally whatever you want with them as they have unlockable boot loaders.
