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There is this one other thing though... ad-blocking on smartphones is not as easy as ad-blocking on browsers on desktops/laptops. A lot of the big great tech co
by pen2l 11y ago
There is this one other thing though... ad-blocking on smartphones is not as easy as ad-blocking on browsers on desktops/laptops. A lot of the big great tech companies (Facebook being the best example) are betting huge on smartphone... and it seems like they'll make bank there, because again, ad-blocking on smartphones is not that easy.
Any thoughts on what we can do to make ad-blocking easier on smartphones? Say, on the iPhone?
- zurn 11y agoAddons work in Firefox. I always wonder why that doesn't bring users flocking to Firefox en masse on mobile. Hopefully not a long wait for iOS users, Mozilla just did a "limited beta" blogpost a couple of days ago.
- ryan-c 11y agoUnless Apple's rules have changed, iOS Firefox will be little more than a re-skinned Safari, just like iOS Chrome. I would be very surprised if it has add-on support.
- zurn 11y agoThe iOS WKWebView component available for apps does have a "user scripts" feature in principle lets you do adblocking and other content-munging addons. But yes it's not a given, might be hard to provide a compatible/full featured API for addons. Let's see what Mozilla does.
- tensor 11y agoThat's why I use Firefox on mobile.
- drdaeman 11y agoFor any Android phone that can run Xposed, there's a module called MinMinGuard, that's quite effective in combatting verious in-app "native" ads, analytics and other sorts of spyware. As for browsers, there's Adblock Edge and µBlock readily available for Firefox, and few blocking apps (hosts-file-based and proxies) also exist (don't remember names, but at I think I've seen some on FDroid). Not much, but provides fairly good filtering and as easy as a few taps to get in a lot of cases.
- thedrbrian 11y agoPrivoxy? The only problem being that you'd have to surf everything via your home network.