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Single-handedly, Firefox (independently from how crappy it can be at times) is what is keeping me on Android. Its full extension support (i.e.: uBlock Origin su
by NdMAND 1y ago
Single-handedly, Firefox (independently from how crappy it can be at times) is what is keeping me on Android. Its full extension support (i.e.: uBlock Origin support) is something that I can't really do without.
I do wonder if the crowd here knows of other good alternatives though - specifically, Android and/or iOS browsers with "full" uBlock Origin support (no uBlock origin lite, no other blocker, ...). I would love to be made aware of a few alternatives.
I am aware that there is a browser from Kagi that works on iOS (I think?) but it's still in beta and closed sourced so not ready for prime time on my device. I am also aware of some peers of Firefox like Waterfox.
- christophilus 1y agoBrave on iOS is fine. Works roughly like my old Android Firefox did.
- vezycash 1y agoTry lemur browser, it has extension support.
- vanc_cefepime 1y agoOrion (by Kagi) with full ublock origin on iOS, atleast that was the case about 6 months ago that I am aware of on Apple’s ecosystem. I’ve long jumped to pihole/adguard home to block ads at the router level so I went back to stock safari after that and use Tailscale to retain the router blocking capabilities when I’m on cell service.
- stagalooo 1y agoYes, this is still true. I use orion but I do find it to be a bit buggy.
- vanc_cefepime 1y agoSame. This was my reason for going back to safari (now w ublock lite) but with a dns adblocker like pihole/adguard home.
- darkamaul 1y agoI'm also using Orion on iOS, so far without any major issues. And adblocking still works great here.
- TingPing 1y agoThis simply isn’t true, webkit cannot support ublock origin atm. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14IgSRVop4psUTgtLZlvYJYrAArhvL3WvRlUdzdQbIoQ/htmlview https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14IgSRVop4psUTgtLZlvY... The request modification apis specifically.
- TiredOfLife 1y agoKagi is directly working with Russia, so anything touched by them is out.
- okanat 1y agoNot uBlock Origin but Brave's own blocker is written in Rust and it is much more battery efficient than Firefox+uBO. It is equally powerful too (you can also add custom lists). Firefox is both slow and eats a lot of battery.
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- vdfs 1y agoSamsung Browser do support few ad blocking extensions like ADB+ and AdGuard
- antman 1y agoKiwi browser allows the blocked chrome extensions such as ublock origin
- twapi 1y agoKiwi is no longer maintained
- that_lurker 1y agoWhy not do dns adblocking so the device or browser does not matter
- bmicraft 1y agoBecause it's much less effective.
- icar 1y agoTry Vivaldi
- edelhans 1y agoEdge for Android also has (limited) extension support. It only supports a subset of extensions, but I am using uBlock Origin (full version, although _lite_ is also available), Sponsorblock and Dark Reader for example.