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Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #47

Why is it Focus by Firefox and not Focus by Mozilla? Mozilla is the name of the company, Firefox is the name of one of Mozilla's products. So a software program was created by another software program? This type of illogical branding is becoming typical of Mozilla these days. It's a shame because the web really needs browser leadership from an organization that isn't a multinational corporation.

And even worse, it's for (and only works with) Safari, not Firefox.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #27
post #5

A 7MB png on that page (4418x3206) - that'll be the first thing I want to block…

So you're judging the quality of an iOS app on how well-optimised the images on its website are? This is not a website you're going to visit regularly, or probably even more than once (except to show all your friends how badly optimised this image is). Based on this logic, I probably shouldn't have bought the car I have now, because the brochure was printed on really thick paper.

I see no quality-judging in that comment.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #59
post #4

Sounds neat. Would really enjoy installing and trying this out. However, I can't for the life of me find it. Here's what I tried: -Searching for "focus" in the app store. Unsurprisingly, a thousand things came up that were not this. -Searching for "focus firefox". No results. -Searching for "focus by firefox". No results. -In hopes that the article might have a link to the app in the app store, going to that in my ph…

It maybe that your iPhone is not compatible with this app. I have iPhone 5c and I can't install it. Focus is supporting iPhone 5s and newer.

I appreciate the suggestion - I have a 5s though and have used other ad blockers, I guess it just hasn't propagated yet.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #47

Why is it Focus by Firefox and not Focus by Mozilla? Mozilla is the name of the company, Firefox is the name of one of Mozilla's products. So a software program was created by another software program? This type of illogical branding is becoming typical of Mozilla these days. It's a shame because the web really needs browser leadership from an organization that isn't a multinational corporation.

The number of people who recognize the Firefox brand vastly outnumber the people who recognize the Mozilla brand. It makes complete sense.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ads are a stupid payment method anyway. It only pays up to a few cents per view at most. What if you want to be paid a little bit more? Overhaul your complete monetizing scheme?

Sorry but ads are a very effective and proven way for a web business to generate revenue. That is all together a different discussion on what is an effective way to monetize your web business. But my question is for small business or startups which already have a revenue and relying on that ad revenue. How will they be affected ?

The bottom has fallen out of the ad market recently. Anyway, content blocking is still opt-in. That means most people will never enable it, and the people who enable it are probably not going to click on your ads anyway. But most importantly, if users are going out of their way to avoid paying you, your business model is plain broken. No point trying to prop it up by banning ad blockers.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #47

Why is it Focus by Firefox and not Focus by Mozilla? Mozilla is the name of the company, Firefox is the name of one of Mozilla's products. So a software program was created by another software program? This type of illogical branding is becoming typical of Mozilla these days. It's a shame because the web really needs browser leadership from an organization that isn't a multinational corporation.

And even worse, it's for (and only works with) Safari, not Firefox.

Content blockers are only supported in Safari, per Apple.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #47

Why is it Focus by Firefox and not Focus by Mozilla? Mozilla is the name of the company, Firefox is the name of one of Mozilla's products. So a software program was created by another software program? This type of illogical branding is becoming typical of Mozilla these days. It's a shame because the web really needs browser leadership from an organization that isn't a multinational corporation.

I mean no offense, but out of all complaints I've heard about Mozilla's work on Hacker News, this is probably the stupidest. What the web really needs is less vitriol against those that actually do something.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #21
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. Someone has some context to this? I am using Ad-Blocker Browser on iOS and it blocks ads just fine.

is it doing its own ad blocking or is it doing ad blocking as a safari ad block extension? There is a very specific high-performant ad block mechanism in iOS now.

It's a browser shell which has been doing ad blocking for over a year, so it would probably do it's own thing.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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post #4

Sounds neat. Would really enjoy installing and trying this out. However, I can't for the life of me find it. Here's what I tried: -Searching for "focus" in the app store. Unsurprisingly, a thousand things came up that were not this. -Searching for "focus firefox". No results. -Searching for "focus by firefox". No results. -In hopes that the article might have a link to the app in the app store, going to that in my ph…

We literally just clicked the "release" button in the last five minutes. The blog post went out a bit early.

That is one way to frustrate people.
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