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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 skarz »

flyingshelf wrote: post #48
skarz wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does YouTube in Safari play in background/with the screen off?

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by safeimp »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #49
KennyBlanken wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Mr Robot? What?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/mozillas-mr-robot-promo-ba...

> If you’re a Firefox user, you may have noticed a weird new extension that suddenly showed up in your browser this week. > The extension is called “Looking Glass 1.0.3” and this is its description: MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT FROM YOURS. Now that sounds ominous. It’s really not, though. It’s a promotional campaign between Firefox and the TV series Mr. Robot that brings an alternate reality game to your browser. This must have sounded like a great idea when somebody pitched it to Mozilla, but the backlash has been fierce.

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by embedding-shape »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #49
KennyBlanken wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Mr Robot? What?

Besides the other sources, here's the HN discussion at the time:

"Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser" - 757 points - Dec 15, 2017 - 515 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931730

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by seanyeh »

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.

Many people are not aware that for smaller creators, Google forces ads on their videos (without consent) and takes all the revenue

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by __david__ »

kioleanu wrote: post #14
overflowy wrote: post #11

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Nope. Only Browser that can on iOS is Brave.

I don’t have YouTube ads with Safari and AdGuard

I just tried AdGuard with safari and got YouTube ads. Do you have to configure something special?

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by cedws »

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...

Holy crap I didn't know such a thing could exist, thank you. It's so responsive too.

Please delete this before anyone sees it :)

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by OptionOfT »

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios#w...

> Does ad blocking affect search engine ads? > No. Ads shown on search engine results pages are not blocked.

A lot of the search results on top of Google are there to scam you, providing phone numbers for pass through services that charge $ for it, like flight cancellation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1p6h81i/beware_fake_...

So this omission should absolutely be addressed, but they probably cannot because of the Google Search contract...

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by bitpush »

barbazoo wrote: post #32
LeoPanthera wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It doesn't have to go through Google. Lots of us support the people they follow through patreon et al, I don't need to make the gigacorp even richer than it is. They have enough.

Why do these creators use YouTube then? Why cant they host it on s3 and the have you directly compensate? Surely the creator is getting some value from YouTube and YT expects to be compensated for that?
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