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Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by DarmokTanagra »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #28
overflowy wrote: post #10

FYI: Doesn't block YouTube ads.

I'm regularly surprised that people are willing to block YouTube ads. I know that Google gets that advertising money too, but you're also blocking revenue that the channel owner would otherwise get. I suppose it might depend what you're watching, but most YouTubers aren't big business, they're just individuals. YouTube Premium is one of the few subscriptions I am completely happy to pay.

when they stop placing ads arbitrarily in the middle of a sentence or scene Ill stop blocking them

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by KennyBlanken »

NikxDa wrote: post #5

I was going to give credit to the direction Mozilla was taking here after their... questionable decisions in the past few year(s). Only to see that this is neither generally available, nor can you use it without enabling telemetry. I don't know who makes these decisions inside Mozilla, but I just don't get it.

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Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by nxc18 »

Melatonic wrote: post #31
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.

Is it that buggy ? Orion works pretty well for me. Where you have you ran into bugs ?

Randomly the new tab page stops working. And when the new tab page stops working, all browsing activity stops working until I restart the app. I think the pages load, but I can’t actually see them because it is hidden by the new tab page.

Also sometimes tabs disappear from the tab picker, which makes tab management confusing.

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by hn_submit »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #28
overflowy wrote: post #10

FYI: Doesn't block YouTube ads.

I'm regularly surprised that people are willing to block YouTube ads. I know that Google gets that advertising money too, but you're also blocking revenue that the channel owner would otherwise get. I suppose it might depend what you're watching, but most YouTubers aren't big business, they're just individuals. YouTube Premium is one of the few subscriptions I am completely happy to pay.

Without ad blocking YouTube is simply unwatchable / unbearable.

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

#48

Post by flyingshelf »

skarz wrote: post #37
cedws wrote: post #9

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

For that, there's ProTube[1]. On the surface it behaves like YouTube Premium, under the hood it's just the mobile version of YouTube bundled into an iOS app. I have no idea why ads aren't served, I analyzed the network requests with Fiddler Everywhere and saw nothing nefarious. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/protube-block-ads-on-video/id6...

Why not use YouTube in Safari then? Haven't seen ads in years. Plenty of options to block them already.

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #44
NikxDa wrote: post #5

I was going to give credit to the direction Mozilla was taking here after their... questionable decisions in the past few year(s). Only to see that this is neither generally available, nor can you use it without enabling telemetry. I don't know who makes these decisions inside Mozilla, but I just don't get it.

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Mr Robot? What?
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