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Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by mikestew »

feld wrote: post #21
iSnow wrote: 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.

If it's anything like the ones I looked at a while back, it goes through a proxy to strip the ads. So all of your web browsing goes through a 3rd party. I'm no technical wiz on such things, but I can't think of how else it could work without being an Apple-approved Safari extension.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by lkiernan »

edd wrote: post #102
st3fan wrote: post #54

We 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.

Any reason you're not supporting the iPhone 5 or 5C? Is there something you need which they don't support?

Because Apple want you to upgrade plzkthx

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by nv-vn »

212d1d wrote: post #138
st3fan wrote: post #54

We 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.

Just a curiosity I have found: why does no ad blocker, Focus included, block ads on 4chan (4chan-ads.org, IMC)?

Because 4chan's ads aren't invasive and they don't track you. They're just small banner images displayed at the top and bottom of the page with no JS, no flash, etc.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by ethbro »

bad_user wrote: post #109
newscracker wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know the differences, but I haven't seen any popular ad-blockers that don't also block or allow blocking trackers because they all have various blacklists you can use (I'm referring to the ones like uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus).

Where can I find such blacklists for uBlock / AdBlock Plus meant for trackers? Is there a page documenting them somewhere? I'd be interested.

I get the sense a lot of those are community-knowledge-only documented, so IRC (I would assume) might be the best place to start if you're interested.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by lkiernan »

0942v8653 wrote: post #84
FussyZeus wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Content blockers are only supported in Safari, per Apple.

Yes. It just seems misleading to say "by Firefox" for the majority of users, who don't know that.

It feels excessive to call this misleading. The web browser team within Mozilla must be pretty well placed to be significant in creating an app for mobile web browser experiences.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by ethbro »

uncletaco wrote: post #85
deadowl wrote: post #28

They're now favoring Firefox branding over Mozilla branding?

Makes sense seeing as they're focus -- no pun intended -- is pretty much Firefox and its various incarnations throughout desktop and mobile. Expanding their most visible brand to include their entire suite of browser based technologies doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.

I'll take "Focus by Firefox" over "Firefox Live 360" any day. ;)

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by sotojuan »

kdamken wrote: 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…

"Focus Mozilla" worked for me.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by soared »

Jimmed wrote: post #27
dan1234 wrote: 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.

> So you're judging the quality of an iOS app on how well-optimised the images on its website are?

Yes. If you can't judge an app based on its website, why would anyone make a pretty, usable website? Its trivial to downsize that image based on browser or os.

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