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I'm so grateful that FF for Android exists with addon support. Using it with uBlock is the only way to make mobile not an awful experience for me.

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For those needing chromium, there's also Kiwi Browser, which is mostly a chromium fork with extensions re-enabled on mobile.

I wish I could switch to FF, but I still need PWA support + rich media notifications for a web based music player I wrote.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...

There are other mobile browsers which incorporate adblocking directly (though not extensions generally).

The Einkbro browser, optimised for e-ink devices (as the name suggests) is one. I believe Brave does as well.

As much as I'm a fan of Firefox (using it now on desktop), on my mobile e-ink device, Einkbro's optimisations make for a vastly superior browsing experience.

There's also Kiwi browser which directly supports most Chrome addons and has for many years. I can never understand why it doesn't get more attention.

Have you never heard of NextDNS?

DNS blocking has some nice qualities (simple! efficient! app agnostic!) but it is absolutely not a replacement for something that can inspect and modify the page itself. That has TONS of additional usecases beyond "replace ad image with blank space".

Unfortunately with websites hosting their ads on their own pages (like for example IMDB) DNS filtering is becoming less effective.

I use PiHole, but DNS options don't catch everything. uBlock catches a LOT that it doesn't, and allows for lots of custom stuff I can't do otherwise.

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