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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, 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

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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.

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

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/ 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/ 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.

>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.

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.

i have not found this to be the case at all

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.

On mobile, Bromite is your friend :)

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.

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.

i used to have this for some sites too, but ublock seems to always get ahead eventually

yeah evangelising anything hardly works. people in large are always hesitant to move away from the familiar. i find show and tease works better :)

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?"

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