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Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by feld »

iSnow wrote: post #13
panglott wrote: post #2

"Currently, Focus by Firefox only works with Safari, not Firefox for iOS. This was not our choice—Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. We are exploring how we can provide this feature on Firefox for iOS and will deliver it as soon as it’s possible." The main reason I went back to Safari after getting Firefox for iOS.

>Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. Someone has some context to this? I am using Ad-Blocker Browser on iOS and it blocks ads just fine.

is it doing its own ad blocking or is it doing ad blocking as a safari ad block extension? There is a very specific high-performant ad block mechanism in iOS now.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by falcolas »

iSnow wrote: post #13
panglott wrote: post #2

"Currently, Focus by Firefox only works with Safari, not Firefox for iOS. This was not our choice—Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. We are exploring how we can provide this feature on Firefox for iOS and will deliver it as soon as it’s possible." The main reason I went back to Safari after getting Firefox for iOS.

>Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. Someone has some context to this? I am using Ad-Blocker Browser on iOS and it blocks ads just fine.

> it blocks ads just fine.

In Safari? Working as intended. In Chrome or Firefox? Unexpected (according to their link).

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by pselbert »

jasonkostempski wrote: post #19
kdamken wrote: post #4

Sounds neat. Would really enjoy installing and trying this out. However, I can't for the life of me find it. Here's what I tried: -Searching for "focus" in the app store. Unsurprisingly, a thousand things came up that were not this. -Searching for "focus firefox". No results. -Searching for "focus by firefox". No results. -In hopes that the article might have a link to the app in the app store, going to that in my ph…

I just found out Scott Weiland died by searching "focus by firefox".

I just found out that Scott Weiland died by reading this comment.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by inglor »

I'm so confused here - I thought Apple added the ability to create content blockers to reduce revenue on the web so that more content providers resort to ADs and they get a bigger slice of the pie.

Why would Mozilla help them in their goal? Wouldn't it mean less reliance on the web and less Firefox in the long run?

What am I missing here?

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by pdkp »

panglott wrote: post #2

"Currently, Focus by Firefox only works with Safari, not Firefox for iOS. This was not our choice—Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. We are exploring how we can provide this feature on Firefox for iOS and will deliver it as soon as it’s possible." The main reason I went back to Safari after getting Firefox for iOS.

To be fair, I would be incredibly surprised if creating a built-in Android content blocker is something Google would even consider, let alone implement.

It is disappointing that they aren't making that API public, but just having that be a core feature of their operating system is pretty huge. Hopefully they have plans to make it public or Firefox will just implement their own ad-blocker into IOS firefox.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by Jimmed »

dan1234 wrote: post #5

A 7MB png on that page (4418x3206) - that'll be the first thing I want to block…

So you're judging the quality of an iOS app on how well-optimised the images on its website are?

This is not a website you're going to visit regularly, or probably even more than once (except to show all your friends how badly optimised this image is).

Based on this logic, I probably shouldn't have bought the car I have now, because the brochure was printed on really thick paper.

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by srameshc »

Pardon me as I don't understand this blocking analytics or ads thing yet. Wouldn't a small web business which relies on Ad money be killed with this move ? Wouldn't someone who wants to provide content for ad money eventually have to pay Apple some cut for displaying ads on app. Wouldn't it drive the prices of ad as a result which would hurt small business who looks at internet advertising for their growth strategy ?

Re: Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS

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Post by air »

pdkp wrote: post #26
panglott wrote: post #2

"Currently, Focus by Firefox only works with Safari, not Firefox for iOS. This was not our choice—Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. We are exploring how we can provide this feature on Firefox for iOS and will deliver it as soon as it’s possible." The main reason I went back to Safari after getting Firefox for iOS.

To be fair, I would be incredibly surprised if creating a built-in Android content blocker is something Google would even consider, let alone implement. It is disappointing that they aren't making that API public, but just having that be a core feature of their operating system is pretty huge. Hopefully they have plans to make it public or Firefox will just implement their own ad-blocker into IOS firefox.

To be fair, Firefox can and does ship their own browser engine on Android, something that is forbidden on IOS.
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