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µBlock or Ghostery, whoever comes up with the tool to block garbage on mobile devices (preferably Chrome), will be a winner!

mintplant 12y ago
Ghostery supports Firefox for Android [1]. For µBlock, there are two tickets open on GitHub [2,3] about Firefox for Android support. Unfortunately, Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions [4]. But if you have a rooted device, you can block ads/trackers/etc. across all apps via AdAway [5], which manages a custom HOSTS file for you. [1] https://www.ghostery.com/en/download https://www.ghostery.com/en/download [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/524 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/524 [3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/556 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/556 [4] https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/faq https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/faq [5] https://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/adaway/ https://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/adaway/
- bmcd87 12y ago
  (Disclaimer: I'm a Ghostery developer) In addition to the extension working on Firefox for Android, Ghostery has it's own browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.android.ghostery https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.a... It's pretty new and has some key features that are still in development, but it's getting there.
  - webwanderings 12y ago
    Hey, I'm like millions of those lay users who do not have rooted mobile devices. WRT Firefox, it does not play nicely with Google services, like Gmail. WRT, browsers...I have tried many of them under the sun and all of them have a consistent disadvantage over Google, that is, speed. I've got many lay users friends who still look for an Ad blocker out of the box, for their mobile devices. I have hope from Ghostery and uBlock makers, fingers crossed.
  - unicornporn 12y ago
    Oh please, listen to my sentiments. I would LOVE to use that browser of yours, but its unexplainable to me how anyone could stand using a mobile browser without text reflow. I know Google is not making things easier[1]. Before every app that used WebView had it. Now Opera is alone with this feature on Android. Implementing it would give you a nice competitive edge and make many users happy. Somehow Opera is able to to do it super elegantly with WebKit code. [1] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378
lolwebkit 12y ago
I would pay good money to have this problem fixed!

mintplant 12y ago

Ghostery supports Firefox for Android [1]. For µBlock, there are two tickets open on GitHub [2,3] about Firefox for Android support. Unfortunately, Chrome for Android doesn't support extensions [4]. But if you have a rooted device, you can block ads/trackers/etc. across all apps via AdAway [5], which manages a custom HOSTS file for you. [1] https://www.ghostery.com/en/download https://www.ghostery.com/en/download [2] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/524 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/524 [3] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/556 https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/556 [4] https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/faq https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/faq [5] https://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/adaway/ https://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/adaway/

bmcd87 12y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm a Ghostery developer) In addition to the extension working on Firefox for Android, Ghostery has it's own browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.android.ghostery https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghostery.a... It's pretty new and has some key features that are still in development, but it's getting there.
- webwanderings 12y ago
  Hey, I'm like millions of those lay users who do not have rooted mobile devices. WRT Firefox, it does not play nicely with Google services, like Gmail. WRT, browsers...I have tried many of them under the sun and all of them have a consistent disadvantage over Google, that is, speed. I've got many lay users friends who still look for an Ad blocker out of the box, for their mobile devices. I have hope from Ghostery and uBlock makers, fingers crossed.
- unicornporn 12y ago
  Oh please, listen to my sentiments. I would LOVE to use that browser of yours, but its unexplainable to me how anyone could stand using a mobile browser without text reflow. I know Google is not making things easier[1]. Before every app that used WebView had it. Now Opera is alone with this feature on Android. Implementing it would give you a nice competitive edge and make many users happy. Somehow Opera is able to to do it super elegantly with WebKit code. [1] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378

lolwebkit 12y ago

I would pay good money to have this problem fixed!