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I quite like these safari extensions. They almost make up for the forced safari monopoly on iOS (but not really). I use dark reader on chrome for computers. Th

I quite like these safari extensions. They almost make up for the forced safari monopoly on iOS (but not really). I use dark reader on chrome for computers. They also have a safari extension that surprisingly works just as well. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader https://darkreader.org/safari/ https://darkreader.org/safari/ I'm concerned, though, whether these extensions work the same as chrome extensions. Can they view and potentially upload your browser passwords/bank info/etc? Is there some limitation that prevents this in the implementation?

Waterluvian 5y ago
Firefox had amazing support for mobile plugins. I haven’t checked in a while though. I assume Apple doesn’t permit this so you’re kinda limited with an iDevice. (he says from his iPhone)
- zaik 5y ago
  uBlock Origin for Firefox Mobile (Fennec on F-Droid) is a killer feature. I cannot remember the last time I have seen an ad on my phone.
  - Waterluvian 5y ago
    AdGuard (I think?) gets about 80% of them on Safari. But I agree uBlock Origin is amazing. It’s kind of Firefox’s killer feature.
- mastazi 5y ago
  Firefox still supports mobile plugins but, a while ago (IIRC last year), the plugin API changed, as a result currently the selection of available plugins is much smaller than it used to be. I should add that I haven't checked in a few months, maybe it's improved now.
  - m-p-3 5y ago
    Broad addons support is still locked behind the Nightly version, and you gotta do this weird dance to achieve it https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio... Still the same a year later..
  - dralley 5y ago
    They didn't change the plugin API, they did a massive rewrite of the mobile browser engine infrastructure that broke most of the plugin APIs, and probably the test suites as well. So they are disabled until they can be fixed and proven to work.
gumby 5y ago
In the case of safari you could use the built-in reader mode. I have it enabled by default. Google of course will never include such a thing

Waterluvian 5y ago

Firefox had amazing support for mobile plugins. I haven’t checked in a while though. I assume Apple doesn’t permit this so you’re kinda limited with an iDevice. (he says from his iPhone)

zaik 5y ago
uBlock Origin for Firefox Mobile (Fennec on F-Droid) is a killer feature. I cannot remember the last time I have seen an ad on my phone.
- Waterluvian 5y ago
  AdGuard (I think?) gets about 80% of them on Safari. But I agree uBlock Origin is amazing. It’s kind of Firefox’s killer feature.
mastazi 5y ago
Firefox still supports mobile plugins but, a while ago (IIRC last year), the plugin API changed, as a result currently the selection of available plugins is much smaller than it used to be. I should add that I haven't checked in a few months, maybe it's improved now.
- m-p-3 5y ago
  Broad addons support is still locked behind the Nightly version, and you gotta do this weird dance to achieve it https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio... Still the same a year later..
- dralley 5y ago
  They didn't change the plugin API, they did a massive rewrite of the mobile browser engine infrastructure that broke most of the plugin APIs, and probably the test suites as well. So they are disabled until they can be fixed and proven to work.

gumby 5y ago

In the case of safari you could use the built-in reader mode. I have it enabled by default. Google of course will never include such a thing