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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 psd1 »

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...

For android users: NewPipe (others exist too)

It's web scraping, and occasionally falls behind yt changes (2 years ago it was unusable for about a month). It could be described as an arms race, but Google appears to suffer it to live.

I suppose they understand that zero is not the optimal corruption target. (Because, as you asymptotically approach total control, the user cost also rises asymptotically.)

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by alentred »

I am using DNS filtering on mobile, and noticed a new trend on some websites that detect an ad blocker: they force a browser native alert message which effectively blocks the page, followed by a page reload when the alert is dismissed. Wonder if there is a solution for that.

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by martheen »

alentred wrote: post #152

I am using DNS filtering on mobile, and noticed a new trend on some websites that detect an ad blocker: they force a browser native alert message which effectively blocks the page, followed by a page reload when the alert is dismissed. Wonder if there is a solution for that.

Firefox with uBO on Android can handle that easily, no idea if iOS limit that

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by inigyou »

cryptonym wrote: post #136
qingcharles wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A neighbor came to ask for help today. He got locked out of his Facebook account and was getting impatient with their AI, so he Googled "facebook support number" clicked on the first link (almost certainly an ad) and called the number. The person on the other end apparently told him they needed access to his bank accounts to verify his identity and you know the rest of the story.

How is Alphabet not responsible this? They push ads for scams at the top and earn money from it. That should be 100% on them to reimburse, then go after the scammers.

They can only be held responsible if a scam victim sues them.

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by janlaureys »

tgv wrote: post #133
dest wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only we could pay for Firefox so they could get rid of that Google funding…

Yeah, if everyone gave $10, that would get them at least $50.

There's dozens of us ! So 120$ should be pretty realistic.

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by inigyou »

ssl232 wrote: post #138
DavideNL wrote: post #132

Aren't they like 10+ years late with this? So after all this time, Mozilla comes with a minimal ad-blocker that hardly blocks anything (easylist only, and worse [1] ), compared to all other ad-blockers that have been available on iOS for many years. I don't understand, maybe i'm missing something... [1] "Ad Blocker won’t block every ad. Ads served directly by the site you’re visiting and ads shown in search results w…

Tell me about it. It stopped me ditching ever more privacy invading Android for iOS. How has it taken this long?

Why ditch privacy invading android for super privacy invading, 30% extra taxed and you-own-nothing-and-be-happy iOS?

Re: Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

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Post by inigyou »

nemomarx wrote: post #38
embedding-shape wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> access to these changes required you to share technical and interraction data (telemetry) with Mozilla How did that even happen? I sure hope that was a bug and not a product decision, because that sounds very backwards.

I think for their labs / beta features they just require it to get testing data

In February 2025 Mozilla granted themselves the right to sell your personal data for profit
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