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i think mobile users are unaware how good firefox+ublock origin is. i constantly get bombarded by disgusting adds while browsing news portals, cooking recipes,

i think mobile users are unaware how good firefox+ublock origin is. i constantly get bombarded by disgusting adds while browsing news portals, cooking recipes, etc. imagine reading about some great cooking ideas and midway through you see an advertisement for "revolutionary medication for foot fungus" with before and after pictures to show. and yes this happens even in "private" tabs. if anything mozilla should give financial backing to extensions such as ublock origin EDIT: should say "android users". iphones are beyond help even with firefox

frameset 4y ago
I do try and evangalise for it when I'm with others and they complain about ads on their android web browsers. But it's a tough sell these days.
- mihaaly 4y ago
  There was a lightly visited portal (news) that I got used to and started to bug me to turn off my adblocker (uBlock) if I want to read their materials (I do not call their duplicated things fetched from here and there articles). I stopped visiting them.
  - medo-bear 4y ago
    i used to have this for some sites too, but ublock seems to always get ahead eventually
- medo-bear 4y ago
  yeah evangelising anything hardly works. people in large are always hesitant to move away from the familiar. i find show and tease works better :)
  - frameset 4y ago
    Ha, you make a good point. So instead I can show them the same site they're on, but with no ads. Wait for the "how come your view looks different?"
jacooper 4y ago
Its really buggy on android. I find Brave to be much brave on mobile, and on desktop its much better on the security side, especially on Linux.
- medo-bear 4y ago
  i have not found this to be the case at all
- HeckFeck 4y ago
  I went from Firefox to Brave, only because I need bookmark sync from systems besides Macintoshes. We'd likely agree advert blocking is mandatory. I didn't see any advert blocking in FF for iPhone, while Brave looks to use the same blacklists as uBlock Origin. So far it has caught nearly every advert and annoyance. Though I still am wearied by bombardments from the browser itself to sign up for 'services that respect my data', I get that they need to make money but I am still ticked off; it seems a little contradictory. Also brave search has serious problems filtering out SEOspam blogs.
pmlnr 4y ago
I gave up on FF on android, it's abysmal. The best browser UI on android goes to Lightning https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/ but it's essentially abandoned - even though it uses the system webview, it can still be a problem. The next is Bromite https://www.bromite.org/ https://www.bromite.org/ which is significantly nicer and faster, and FF on Android, with built-in ad blocking. On desktop, FF is still my choice, but the android one is a bad joke.
- forgotpwd16 4y ago
  >best browser UI on android goes to Lightning Lighting was my browser of choice. After stopped being updated moved to, a fork of it, SmartCookieWeb.
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favaq 4y ago
Uh? All browsers besides chrome come with ad blocking capabilities, some of them built-in. I use safari with adguard on my iphone and I don't see ads ever either. I do a lot of web browsing on my iphone and if I couldn't block ads I wouldn't have bought one.
- medo-bear 4y ago
  til. i have never owned an iphone but my family members do and always complain about ads. from what i see this could be a good tool for them. thank you
plaguepilled 4y ago
On mobile, Bromite is your friend :)

frameset 4y ago

I do try and evangalise for it when I'm with others and they complain about ads on their android web browsers. But it's a tough sell these days.

mihaaly 4y ago
There was a lightly visited portal (news) that I got used to and started to bug me to turn off my adblocker (uBlock) if I want to read their materials (I do not call their duplicated things fetched from here and there articles). I stopped visiting them.
- medo-bear 4y ago
  i used to have this for some sites too, but ublock seems to always get ahead eventually
medo-bear 4y ago
yeah evangelising anything hardly works. people in large are always hesitant to move away from the familiar. i find show and tease works better :)
- frameset 4y ago
  Ha, you make a good point. So instead I can show them the same site they're on, but with no ads. Wait for the "how come your view looks different?"

jacooper 4y ago

Its really buggy on android. I find Brave to be much brave on mobile, and on desktop its much better on the security side, especially on Linux.

medo-bear 4y ago
i have not found this to be the case at all
HeckFeck 4y ago
I went from Firefox to Brave, only because I need bookmark sync from systems besides Macintoshes. We'd likely agree advert blocking is mandatory. I didn't see any advert blocking in FF for iPhone, while Brave looks to use the same blacklists as uBlock Origin. So far it has caught nearly every advert and annoyance. Though I still am wearied by bombardments from the browser itself to sign up for 'services that respect my data', I get that they need to make money but I am still ticked off; it seems a little contradictory. Also brave search has serious problems filtering out SEOspam blogs.

pmlnr 4y ago

I gave up on FF on android, it's abysmal. The best browser UI on android goes to Lightning https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/ but it's essentially abandoned - even though it uses the system webview, it can still be a problem. The next is Bromite https://www.bromite.org/ https://www.bromite.org/ which is significantly nicer and faster, and FF on Android, with built-in ad blocking. On desktop, FF is still my choice, but the android one is a bad joke.

forgotpwd16 4y ago
>best browser UI on android goes to Lightning Lighting was my browser of choice. After stopped being updated moved to, a fork of it, SmartCookieWeb.

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favaq 4y ago

Uh? All browsers besides chrome come with ad blocking capabilities, some of them built-in. I use safari with adguard on my iphone and I don't see ads ever either. I do a lot of web browsing on my iphone and if I couldn't block ads I wouldn't have bought one.

medo-bear 4y ago
til. i have never owned an iphone but my family members do and always complain about ads. from what i see this could be a good tool for them. thank you

plaguepilled 4y ago

On mobile, Bromite is your friend :)