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I migrated from Firefox to Brave years ago, and it's been incredible. It's easy to turn off the crypto stuff and turn on more advanced privacy protection. Then it's just a fast browser with awesome adblocking. My favorite recent feature has been Brave Scriptlets, which are just little javascript functions you can run on specific sites. I've replaced most of the add ons I used with small scripts. Pretty nice. I would…
I stopped paying attention when the major browsers started to act somewhat against the interests of ad-blocking add-ons, some years ago. Would anyone who has kept up let me know what would be the 2026 "industry standard" in terms of an ad-blocking and privacy stack? I primarily use Chrome on Mac and Safari on iPhone but I'm willing to change browsers for better ad-blocking and privacy. I would also be interested in s…
Firefox with uBlock Origin. Nothing else comes close.
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Doesn't iOS restrict all browsers to using WebKit?
Yep, but your typical Apple user is happy to blame everybody but themselves and Apple.
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What is the use case for keyboard shortcuts on handheld devices? On desktops/laptops, keyboard shortcuts save reaching for a mouse, aiming (on the relativley large screen), and clicking. On handhelds, I don't think it's faster to use a shortcut than to simply tap something an inch away. Also, on handhelds, the keyboard blocks a significant part of the screen. And keyboard shortcuts typically use accelerator keys, whi…
>What is the use case for keyboard shortcuts on handheld devices? As someone who bought an HTC Dream / Android G1 when it was new, and wishes more handhelds had a similar form factor, this comment depresses me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
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But MV3 supports uBlock Origin Lite. Which, in my experience, blocks ads just as well, but also lets pages load significantly faster. MV3 supports uBlock.
Just as one example: Chrome + uBOL on Reddit will show you plenty of "Sponsored" stuff. You can use Inspector to find the offending CSS classes and then use `display: none` on them with something like Stylus[0], but not everybody wants to play that whack-a-mole game on the many sites that push uBOL past its blocking capabilities. [0]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus
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What technical difference do the social opinions of the people who write your software make? Genuinely curious.
What exactly is a "technical difference", and why is only that relevant? I am more than my interactions with software and companies, just like every other human. Why should I focus on an arbitrary subset of factors when making decisions?
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Android Firefox versions that are geat as well - [Ironfox]( https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox ): Hardened - [Fennec]( https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ ): Fully FOSS
Oh, I've always used Fennec; does the main Firefox Android build not support extensions?
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Just as one example: Chrome + uBOL on Reddit will show you plenty of "Sponsored" stuff. You can use Inspector to find the offending CSS classes and then use `display: none` on them with something like Stylus[0], but not everybody wants to play that whack-a-mole game on the many sites that push uBOL past its blocking capabilities. [0]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus
Reddit's sponsored posts are blocked by default in uBOL when using _optimal_ (default) or _complete_ mode.
EDIT: I did have it set to `Complete,` so perhaps I have something else going on.
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And there's nothing in MV2 that uBlock Origin needs that doesn't exist in MV3 on Firefox, unlike Chrome. This issue is completely overblown.
That's utter bullshit. The author of uBlock Origin has posted a long list of capabilities that declarativeNetRequest does not support.
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That's utter bullshit. The author of uBlock Origin has posted a long list of capabilities that declarativeNetRequest does not support.
Unlike Chrome, Firefox did not remove the older API.