Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS • Hacker News Board

nonameiguess wrote: post #2

Didn't see it even after updating, then read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios : > This feature is experimental and is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout. It may not yet be available to all users. Additionally, remote improvements must be enabled. Apparently, you can only block ads if you allow Mozilla telemetry. Thanks, dicks.

Apparently, remote improvements became separated from telemetry in Firefox version 148: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remote-improvements#w_w...

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by hmokiguess » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 3:32 PM UTC

overflowy wrote: post #11

cedws wrote: post #9

Can it block YouTube ads? Would be a killer feature.

Nope. Only Browser that can on iOS is Brave.

DuckDuckGo Browser can as well

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by temp0826 » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 3:36 PM UTC

WD-42 wrote: post #3

It's been days (weeks?) and I'm still waiting for the option to appear for me. These "experiments" are super annoying when you are on what I'm assuming is the long tail of a rollout but the marketing/blog posts speak of the feature like it's already launched. If there's someone at Mozilla reading this: turn it on already! I want to get off Orion, it's so buggy, but the internet is unusable without an ad blocker.

I was under the impression that firefox could already use the Safari "content blockers" (as it uses webkit) like Firefox Focus and uBO Lite, but I'm not seeing that option actually. Been using Orion for a while now so not sure if that changed or I'm just misremembering it.