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I always joke to my friends that why Chrome didn't bring extension support to Android - Because extension support will hurt Google's mobile ads revenue so deeply if you can install adblock with one click.

So, please also consider support a non-profit organization like Mozilla, when their products are actually not weaker.

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I like the Adblock app for Android that runs it's own proxy, thereby filtering ads from all apps, including the browser.

In terms of privacy, I don't like the idea of installing a proxy on my phone that can monitor everything I do. At least for Firefox that add-on has to go through their review process, which is pretty strict.

With Firefox on my Android I'm also using HTTPS Everywhere and Ghostery. Both are a really good idea on mobile phones - HTTPS Everywhere is useful because you tend to connect to a lot of public networks and Ghostery is very useful because a lot of websites are not optimized for mobile traffic and tend to load all kinds of crap, like social buttons, which I don't miss because Firefox on Android makes sharing easy.

>non-profit organization

Apart from when they switch existing users settings over to Yahoo by default.

It is still non-profit if at the end of the year they have ... no profit. If this move allows them to keep afloat, then I don't see the problem.

They put you on Google by default for the exact same reason they are switching over to Yahoo as default now.

That would be pretty scummy, but switching new users - well they have to select some search engine, why not the one that pays the most?

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