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Firefox for Android with ublock origin makes my mobile web browsing sane again. Highly recommended.
The only downside, and it feels like it's getting larger every year, is speed. You can tell Firefox rendering and js execution is behind on Chromium. On laptops/desktops there is plenty of HW to compensate, but not on phones, is my experience.
I suggest everybody to give it a spin
Firefox for Android with ublock origin makes my mobile web browsing sane again. Highly recommended.
It's incredible how fast websites load with this combination. I recall reading that despite the internet being faster, actual website performance has never really improved meaningfully. Whatever speed gains we've achieved have simply been eaten by larger and more complex tracking scripts. Google themselves are a significant contributor to this problem, for many websites, Google's scripts are the core source of slowne…
>In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal-use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological progress could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption.
Which is a criticism, it seems, for any system that values resource attribution over efficiency.
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It's not an ad, it's a link from their forum. Of course they're talking about their product.
They are known to be hyperbolic on their forums. Ex A: Blokada Plus is a VPN optimized to work flawlessly with Blokada. You get one of the strongest encryptions with minimal impact on battery life and speed. Together with the battle-tested content blocking functionality of Blokada, the VPN gives you a peace of mind knowing that your private activity stays private. Even on public WiFi, no-one will be able to see what…
Firefox for Android with ublock origin makes my mobile web browsing sane again. Highly recommended.
We're all gonna be so screwed if Firefox dies.
For all the love I have for Blockada I'm not going to send my traffic through their cloud. I wonder if I can run something like PiHole on a VPS somewhere so that I can protect my devices both when I'm at home on WiFi and when I'm outside on 4G. I'll investigate but does anybody already experienced such a setup?
Pi-hole in home network, AdAway on all smartphones, uBlock Origin an all Firefox browsers. I'm shocked when browsing web on different devices. I always recommend to at least install uBlock Origin to users of those devices. Most of them never heard about ad-blocking and they are very, very happy with new web browsing experience. 99% of theme do not want go back. 1% don't care.
Firefox for Android with ublock origin makes my mobile web browsing sane again. Highly recommended.
It's incredible how fast websites load with this combination. I recall reading that despite the internet being faster, actual website performance has never really improved meaningfully. Whatever speed gains we've achieved have simply been eaten by larger and more complex tracking scripts. Google themselves are a significant contributor to this problem, for many websites, Google's scripts are the core source of slowne…
Of course there was flash to deal with rhen too.
Now back when we had 56K Modems was when it really was unusable!
I don't how sites think i want to read an article and warxh a totally unrelated video at the same time.
I'm really starting to miss old style magazines lately.
Click bait and fake headlines about the next iphone have ruinwd the web.
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> I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads In my case, I browse a limited number of web sites that offer no ads (or a minimum amount). The moment I visit a web site with tons of ads, I just close it immediately and just ignore my original intention of visiting that website (e.g., this happens sometimes in HN: people link websites of newspapers, but I don't last in them more than…
> I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads People don't browse, they app.