A 7MB png on that page (4418x3206) - that'll be the first thing I want to block…
That 7MB png should be a jpg :)
Here I fixed it for you http://s27.postimg.org/pupcpnbkh/focus_blog.jpg
And it's still 7x larger then it needs to be.
Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
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Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#92For those who don't want to wait till this propagates through the App Store CDNs, try
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1055677337
Or try https://itunes.apple.com/{countrycode}/app/id1055677337 with the two character country code for your country put in the {countryside} placeholder
For example, it would be
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/id1055677337 for Germany
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/id1055677337 for France
https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/id1055677337 for India
and so on
Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#93If Nick is really the one who wrote that piece, it's sad that the Vice President of Firefox doesn't know about image resizing and optimization.
That's quite a leap just to get to an ad hominem attack. The way we have WordPress configured should have handled this automagically. I'll look into why it didn't.
I don't know about "ad hominem", but you are demonstrating technical incompetence while attempting to pitch a technical product.
That's a big, biiiig red flag. Yes, "it's a very minor thing", but then again it's maybe the only way you can reasonably screw up a blog post, and you did it.
Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, I would be incredibly surprised if creating a built-in Android content blocker is something Google would even consider, let alone implement. It is disappointing that they aren't making that API public, but just having that be a core feature of their operating system is pretty huge. Hopefully they have plans to make it public or Firefox will just implement their own ad-blocker into IOS firefox.
It's just surprising to me that "Focus by Firefox" wasn't first made a Firefox Extension for mobile and desktop...
Firefox desktop has numerous adblockers/tracker blockers already available. Mozilla is even sourcing the list from one of the more popular ones, Disconnect. I assume they didn't feel the need to reinvent the wheel in that ecosystem.
Disconnect may be available on Firefox mobile as well, I'd need to check. I never bother beyond uBlock Origin and Self-Destructing Cookies.
Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#95Pardon me as I don't understand this blocking analytics or ads thing yet. Wouldn't a small web business which relies on Ad money be killed with this move ? Wouldn't someone who wants to provide content for ad money eventually have to pay Apple some cut for displaying ads on app. Wouldn't it drive the prices of ad as a result which would hurt small business who looks at internet advertising for their growth strategy ?
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?
People should start learning from history. Microsoft tried just that, the launched a curated competitor to the WWW in 1995 along Windows 95 called "The Microsoft Network" (short MSN v1). Bill Gates micropayment per view vision he detailed in his book "The Road Ahead" just didn't work out. The free ads based WWW got very successful, and MSN v1 gone nowhere.
If you want see "The Microsoft Network" in action, watch the following advertisement video from Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc
Last time Google disrupted the bad ads market when the annouced their Google text based ads 10 years ago. Now it's time to disrupt the ads market again, with a better "good" ads concept that is okay for the consumer so that they don't use adblockers.
Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#96Questions to the people from Mozilla who're here. How or why is this different from efforts like Privacy Badger (from EFF)[1] when you look at what gets blocked, the methodology used to update the blacklist, etc.? Was there any collaboration with other prominent players working in this area (I only see that you're using disconnect's list)?
Please note that I'm not talking about implementation details like the creating and maintaining a content block list for Safari vs. a browser extension on the desktop.
Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Focus is a tracking blocker, not an ad blocker. Mozilla doesn't have a fundamental problem with display advertising on the web, but we do have a problem with the privacy intrusions associated with invisible trackers.
> Focus is a tracking blocker, not an ad blocker. Mozilla doesn't have a fundamental problem with display advertising on the web, but we do have a problem with the privacy intrusions associated with invisible trackers. This comment is not directed at you, but is a more general take from your statement. With the state of the web we've had for quite sometime, I think the distinction between advertising on the web and p…
Tracking goes way beyond advertising. An ad-blocker won't block Twitter's "Tweet" or Facebook's "Like" buttons or any third party service that isn't directly involved in serving ads. If your concern is your privacy, then an ad-blocker doesn't help as much as you think it does. See: https://donottrack-doc.com/en/
Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#98Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#99We just pushed the button on stage at the Mozilla All-hands. It should by live in most countries now. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1055677337 Ask us anything you want to know about this product. Also, keep an eye on the Github repo. https://github.com/mozilla/focus We are still watching the Keynote but will flip the switch soon.
What's the two-word summary of why I'd want to use this app over one of the other content blockers?
can't do a two word, but you don't have to worry about maintainer accepting $$ to allow certain ads through, as has happened with at least one other iOS content blocker
Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
#100We just pushed the button on stage at the Mozilla All-hands. It should by live in most countries now. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1055677337 Ask us anything you want to know about this product. Also, keep an eye on the Github repo. https://github.com/mozilla/focus We are still watching the Keynote but will flip the switch soon.
Wording makes it sound like you pushed a button and an app was on the app store globally in less than a week...
Are you a magician?