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Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by dredmorbius »

Causality1 wrote: post #112
voxic11 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I want to point out that uBlock Origin is fully functional on mobile firefox which makes it by far the best browser on Android. Plus with firefox you can do fun things like disable the Wake Lock API on youtube so that you can listen to audiobooks or music with the screen off and ad-free.

Depends. If you've also blocked ads with pi-hole or the Android hosts file Firefox and Chrome get closer. Ublock on Firefox is absolutely indespensible for sites that may be actively hostile like piracy or porn, but for casual browsing the UI of Chrome is a lot better. For example, I prefer the address bar at the top. Firefox doesn't like that, so the new tab button stays on the bottom, meaning I have a six inch stre…

Fennec Fox (Firefox for Android) can be configured with controls (navbar, menus) at the top. Bottom is merely the default.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by caoilte »

podiki wrote: post #46

I can't live without uBlock Origin and uMatrix, and was sad to see uMatrix archived [0]. Still works great, but I'm wondering what will happen long term. Anyone also use both and since drop uMatrix for something else, or just uBlock? How is it? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973

It's been really interesting to watch recent gorhill tweets where he describes some laboured efforts to type in rules to block content in ublock that you can do in umatrix with the click of a button.

I don't understand it, but I agree that unlock+umatrix on desktop and mobile has been the best thing about browsing for years.

I think maybe he wants to consolidate Dev effort and I completely understand. He's probably the only person I'm patriotic about right now.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by magicalhippo »

caoilte wrote: post #111
paxys wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for 3+ years now. Haven't encountered a single case of sites working any worse than on Chrome. I also recently started using Firefox full-time on my work machine despite IT strongly mandating that all our tools only work on Chrome and everyone should use that. Have had zero problems (and we use every Google service under the sun).

I keep chromium for Google meet exclusively. I got awful performance on Firefox... not that chrome is much better - but at least I can kill it after every meeting without losing other tabs.

Used Google Meet just yesterday, only a small meeting with five people, but all with webcams and of course audio. Flawless and smooth with Firefox 86 on Windows 10.

Clearly not a universal thing then I guess.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by karaterobot »

jamespullar wrote: post #118
karaterobot wrote: post #109

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> I have been using Firefox as my daily driver for 3+ years now. Haven't encountered a single case of sites working any worse than on Chrome. Really? It happens to me all the time. I can't log into my U.S. Bank account in Firefox, I can't submit a delivery order on Doordash in Firefox, and (just this morning) I couldn't validate a credit reporting form in Firefox. Now, despite those and many other examples, I continu…

Is it possible you have an extension blocking scripts or redirects? I'm able to use Doordash just fine on Firefox.

At the risk of this being a tech support comment, I have definitely tried disabling all my extensions, but no luck. It might be some setting I have flipped on in Firefox, but in general I am about as paranoid about my privacy/security settings in both browsers.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by apozem »

I really, really wish Apple would update Safari for uBlock Origin. I’m about to publish a Safari extension (a NoScript equivalent) and the content blocking APIs are so limited. iOS is even worse than the Mac, too. On iOS AFAIK you can’t even reload the page for the user.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by ignoramous »

jjbinx007 wrote: post #7
grenoire wrote: post #3

Honestly, I can't really browse on my phone anymore. I'm... spoiled by FF + uBlock and I can't tolerate all the distractions. Will we ever get enough traction on either blocking mechanisms or stop shoving ads everywhere? Will the general public experience the pleasures of an ad-less internet? P.S. I'm on an iPhone, blockers failed me so far. Thanks for the suggestions fellas.

Blokada for Android is a pretty good DNS-based ad blocker.

You can definitely do better than use Blokada: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/8536

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by bobiny »

grenoire wrote: post #3

Honestly, I can't really browse on my phone anymore. I'm... spoiled by FF + uBlock and I can't tolerate all the distractions. Will we ever get enough traction on either blocking mechanisms or stop shoving ads everywhere? Will the general public experience the pleasures of an ad-less internet? P.S. I'm on an iPhone, blockers failed me so far. Thanks for the suggestions fellas.

I’m using this on iOS https://better.fyi/ I don’t remember last time I saw ads.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by rightbyte »

staticassertion wrote: post #30

Sucks, but I'm pretty locked into Chrome. I use GSuite for management, ChromeOS, etc. Maybe it means that uBlock Origin can't protect me as well, but it's pretty hard for me to give up the benefits from all of those other things. I don't see Firefox competing. Mozilla doesn't seem to believe that monetizing a browser is possible, whereas I pay thousands of dollars a year at my company because of Chrome's integrations…

Just fire up Chrome for Google stuff and picky sites and use FF for everything else.

Re: uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

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Post by mhitza »

voxic11 wrote: post #27
sackofmugs wrote: post #6

This is honestly one of the first time I'm convinced in a technical sense to consider Firefox over Chrome. uBlock Origin feels as core to me to web browsing as Saved Passwords and Incognito Mode. That uBlock Origin can work better is like the browser itself being better.

Yeah, I want to point out that uBlock Origin is fully functional on mobile firefox which makes it by far the best browser on Android. Plus with firefox you can do fun things like disable the Wake Lock API on youtube so that you can listen to audiobooks or music with the screen off and ad-free.

I gave it a shot on Android, but the fact that it doesn't support userscripts (Greasemonkey), it makes old.reddit.com unreadable. For some reason Chrome increases the font size for that site, whereas on Firefox I have very tiny text and constantly have to zoom in. As I mostly read reddit/hacker news on my phone I had to drop Firefox on Android :(
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