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Posted by pentagrama 10 hours ago

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker(support.mozilla.org)
467 points | 198 commentspage 3
firefax 3 hours ago|
Thanks!
jamesforestwest 8 hours ago||
Well, not bad. But it's not uBlock, and Safari's blocker is already working fine for me. Brave's also been doing this for years. But at least it's something.
owebmaster 7 hours ago||
What I need is a better PWA installer
ramijames 8 hours ago||
If you haven't been using Firefox, what are you even doing with your life?
klardotsh 4 hours ago||
I have been, on desktop and back when I used Android. When I kicked deGoogled Android out of my life and went to iOS where most things Just Work ™ and I could stop thinking about my phone and its bugs, I had to start using Orion because Firefox iOS sucks so much.

This news from TFA is the biggest step in the right direction; I might be able to use Firefox mobile again finally.

nashashmi 6 hours ago|||
A chrome version of Firefox is Brave.

A chrome version of Opera is Vivaldi.

A chrome version of MSIE is MS Edge.

After FF kept breaking extensions with their switch to XUL, I stopped using them.

ramijames 6 hours ago||
Except now you can just install standard extensions in Firefox.

I don't want a chrome version of something. I want an independent browser that isn't effectively some version of adware.

I'll never understand why people don't get on board with migrating away from adware.

Cider9986 7 hours ago|||
Using Brave on desktop and Vanadium on my phone. They are more secure and private which is why I like them.
procinct 3 hours ago||
In what ways is Brave more secure or private than Firefox?
hh2222 7 hours ago|||
Cross platform bookmark support is my favourite feature.
ramijames 6 hours ago||
I also use Firefox on my mobile device. I have to admit: I'm not a huge fan of the interface. Super clunky.
EbNar 8 hours ago||
I've been using it for 20 years and switched 4 yearso ago to something else. My life is fine, thanks.

EDIT: so, the downvotes are because what, exactly?

fsflover 4 hours ago||
I didn't downvote you, but your post has no useful information and looks like pure Firefox bashing for no reason. You don't tell why you switched, to what, what you gained. Not even mentioning that wherever you switched, your protection against ads and tracking must have become worse, as only Firefox supports Ublock Origin.
Klonoar 2 hours ago|||
The comment they replied to is just as useless though.
EbNar 3 hours ago|||
The comment to which I replied wasn't that useful either.
fsflover 1 hour ago||
Does this justify adding more useless comments and asking why you're downvoted?
righthand 7 hours ago||
Unrelated but:

Firefox on iOS has a terrible problem with its autocomplete (I think they replaced the algo with a janky Llm-style autocomplete). When I type “news” into the url bar, it will suggest one of it’s marketing partners (or whatever) but incorrectly such as: newsyorker.com

I dont ever visit The New Yorker but even after clearing caches and site data the problem still persists. I can delete the app and the problem goes away for a short while.

I left a review on the App Store about this and the person (bot?) they hire to respond to reviews asks me to open a ticket. No! How about you port my review over as a ticket and fix your damn software.

shevy-java 7 hours ago||
That may give firefox a bit of percentage back, since some folks can not stand ads anymore. Google garnered a lot of opposition to its evil rule by destroying ublock origin (on chrome).
iririririr 5 hours ago||
good time to remember firefox mobile (specially ios) does not have reproducible builds!

on android, f-doid fennec and all other forks do! it's not even hard, so in my view this "is a feature" for mozilla.

then, further remember one person from the board was involved in AdBlock extension who charged firms 1mi to "whitelist good ads". my emoloyer at the time paid under a nda.

still better than nothing (and who am i kidding? 99% here chose to use chrome on their main machine)

simoltos 5 hours ago||
I'm anxious to try it
TaskForceAgent 7 hours ago||
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