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The site appears to be hugged to death...but the thrust of the idea seems pretty obvious on the surface...I'd add that it also probably follows financial, if not technically savvy groups.

The person with a $50 Walmart Burner phone's experience will be a WHOLE LOT DIFFERENT from the person with the $1100 smartphone with ad blocking turned on.

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Thankfully, with android, firefox still has addon support so ublock origin can still be used regardless of price point.

I wish it had full addon support though, rather than just Mozilla's curated selection of 20 or so. I have to install an app to do twitter -> nitter redirection when it could just be a browser extension.

It is possible to use your own list of addons, but it's needlessly difficult [1]. I hope they will support a slightly less insane workaround eventually.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

I switched to Kiwi because of this.

I occasionally check to see if Firefox has unbroken extensions on Android and won't be back to using it as my primary browser on my phone until it does or Kiwi ceases to be an option.

They took that away awhile ago. Is it back now?

It's been back a while but only for curated addons. It must have been quite a short time that ublock origin in particular wasn't available.

I used to do this till I moved to brave

Yeah, the Walmart burner phone will literally end up burning

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