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So I'd say its adblocking is still less effective than regular Firefox for Android + uBlock Origin add-on.
It does feel quite speedy, though. Could possibly be what I start using in the future to read HN articles.
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> " Firefox Klar is a version of Firefox Focus for Germany, Austria and Switzerland with user activity tracking disabled by default." [1] > "For clients that have "send anonymous usage data" enabled Focus sends a "core" ping and an "event" ping to Mozilla's telemetry service. Sending telemetry can be disabled in the app's settings. Builds of "Focus for Android" have telemetry enabled by default ("opt-out") while buil…
What's special about Germany, Austria and Switzerland that they don't get the user activity tracking?
I installed Firefox Focus for iOS simply for its content blocker. I still prefer using mobile safari, but augmented with three content blockers: - Firefox Focus, which blocks all sorts of stuff - 1Blocker, which blocks all sorts of stuff - Unobstruct, which blocks Medium's "dickbar" popups.
According to F-Droid [1], it contains `com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics`. [1]: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/171#note_30410376
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This is odd because https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.klar is already part of F-Droid and appears exactly the same .. but with a different name.
Looks to me like that app patches out the Gecko webview.
Looks awesome and fast. Exactly what’s needed and expected from Mozilla. Thank you! Can we have something similar for desktop as well?
I think this browser is rather smartphone oriented, and might "clean up" some pages to make them lighter. I don't know.
There's also the duckduckgo app, which seems similar to this, although not sure how they differ. https://duckduckgo.com/app
On Android, Focus appears to use the Gecko renderer. My guess is that the DDG app uses the system webview.
You can install the Gecko version if you compile the code yourself for now. Although I believe they will probably switch to Servo instead of Gecko once it is ready.