I only have two extensions...
... and yet, that alone makes me loathe any other mobile browser that doesn't support them.
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"Video Background Play Fix" is also nice if you are a YouTube user. Background playing of Videos without the need for Premium.
Combine with uninstalling all YouTube apps
Have you tried ReVanced? I love having SponsorBlock, DeArrow thumbnails, and the ability to remove YT Shorts entirely from the app. The YouTube patches are amazing!
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I was using a friend's phone for checking something online the other day, and I was horrified at how much screen real estate was wasted on ads. I've become far too used to having adblock on mobile, and I had forgotten how bad it can be.
I always find it jarring, because I'm so surprised that people put up with it and just accept it as normal. I get that I am an extreme outlier when it comes to my willingness to tinker and also my stubbornness that makes me extremely willing to spend a heckton of time to solve problems that are annoying me, but for many people, switching to a different browser and using uBlock would be trivially easy, but they just don't, even if they know that's an option. I don't understand the mindset that leads to it.
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Add bypass paywall clean and Augmented Steam and you have mine
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It’s a shame they’ve trashed Firefox on iOS. Doing anything involving the home page takes over a second. Closing a tab and reshowing the Home Screen, even just showing the Home Screen without closing a tab takes ages.
I've been using Brave on iOS. I haven't looked into extensions but it has an adblock built-in, and it seems to run pretty well.
Both are just Safari reskinned, right? Or did that change?
Brave is owned by a horrible dude. I’d recommend Orion instead.
I did mention Brave to try to elicit different recommendations. I'll likely give Orion a try soon, although it does seem newer and less stable from what I've seen just looking it up now.
That being said, is there anything about that guy other than his trying to make money by tying crypto wallets and so on into the Brave browser?
He supports and donates to anti-LGBTQ organizations and right-wing groups. He's a piece of shit.
If that's true then I will switch today.
I don’t get why you’ve been downvoted. Asking for more information is perfectly fine.
Brave has had a history of really slimy behaviour.They used Tom Scott’s name, without his consent or involvement to ask for crypto donations. They’ve hijacked referral links, and then gone all “whoops that was an accident.” You literally can’t do that kind of thing by accident.
Brendan Eich was caught donating $1000 (in two batches of $500, so hardly an accident) to California Proposition 8 in 2008. When called out on this, he doubled down on it, and shortly after he resigned from Mozilla. After that he founded Brave, and gathered money from investors. Among those investors was Peter Thiel’s investment fund “Founders Fund.” Thiel being co-founder of PayPal alongside Elon Musk and others, and is well known for the dystopian horror company that is Palantir.
So that’s the kind of company Brave is.
Thank you for all the links, but nothing is more persuasive than his Wikipedia page.
I guess I could look past one or two of those things. But his support for Prop 8 and his publicly criticizing masking during the pandemic are big no-gos for me. One shows that he lacks basic empathy, and the other shows that he thinks highly of his uninformed opinion, even to the point of betting other people's lives on it.
Living up to your username, I see!
Just stick with safari. All IOS web browsers only use WebKit anyway. You can use extensions on safari like uBlock Lite or AdGuard. Works well for me.
they’ve trashed
Maybe blame your shitty iPhone that forces every browser to use Webkit instead of Mozilla/Firefox.
Apple is the one blocking you from having Firefox. Webkit with a different skin is all you ever had to begin with, because apple is a huge bag of cocks
Orion on iOS will let you use uBlock and other extensions. It’s not perfect but it’s the best I’ve found
laughs in AdGuard
Still love the 🦊 though.
With uBlock you can remove cosmetics and some page elements, the best setup is nextdns/pihole/adguard + uBlock origin
Been using Cromite as my daily driver browser. It doesn't allow "real" extensions, but I guess devs built in Adblock Plus, which is really neat.
Def wish I could have Old Reddit Redirect and my dark reader apps on it tho. Keep a Firefox browser around primarily for that.
There's a native dark mode in Cromite. Go to about:flags The setting is Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents and it has a few different settings to try.
...And while I love dark reader, it's quite chonky, even on desktop.
As for old Reddit, I think you can edit host files on android?
"I think you can edit host files on android?"
Hadn't considered this as a possibility. Thanks for mentioning it — I'll have a look into it when I get a chance to. Even if it doesn't end up being possible, it sounds worth looking into.
FYI you can't edit the hosts file on Android without root
If i am not mistaken google say "it's for stability" Stability my ass, if i want my browser being unstable with extensions then i'il do it, fuck google.
And yet the GrapheneOS people recommend their own "Vanadium" hardened version of Chromium instead, for reasons I don't understand.
It is explained here https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
They don't explicitly mention Firefox but:
"Chromium-based browsers like Vanadium provide the strongest sandbox implementation, leagues ahead of the alternatives. "
and
"Chromium has decent exploit mitigations, unlike the available alternatives. "
Since I myself lack the knowledge and skills to judge this, I have to trust the word of the developers.
Edit, correction. They do mention Firefox
"Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface."
And the complete inability to block ads is just a non issue. Ok.
Merely asserting something and explaining it to my satisfaction (as a developer myself) are two different things. I don't want to have to read through both codebases myself, but I would have liked the Graphene OS devs to cite some examples to prove their point.
Seriously. I've never heard of firefox being more vulnerable than chrome. It could be, but realistically not many groups are looking for exploits in a browser with 3% market share
What's interesting is that Google is developing a special version of chrome on Android that supports extensions
https://www.androidauthority.com/try-new-chrome-for-android-with-extensions-3569268/
After they neutered extensions with manifest v3, why even bother?
But it's kinda useless because it doesn't support the most important extension: uBlock Origin.
It did work tho? I was able to install ubock origin and it worked fine
I mean, I haven't tried it, but since Google is forcing their limited version of Manifest v3, you can only get "uBlock Origin Lite" on the Chrome Extension Store.
It does block some ads, but it's quite limited compared to proper uBlock Origin.
Huh I'm using unlock origin on edge which also uses manifest v3 now I think? I haven't seen any performance hits or more ads
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What? I really thought Chrome on Android supports extentions. I've been using Kiwi browser, which is based on Chrome, for a couple of years and it's had extention support all the time...
I want to get away from any Chrome based browser, but for android I really can't stand anything other than Kiwi. I've tried all non-chrome based browsers and they all feel like shit to use. Though I've recently had issues with Kiwi not playing nice with websites in my country , Sweden, and the ID verification app used for many things here and the only browser I've found where it always works is Ecosia. That's weird since it's based on Firefox but no other Android based Firefox browsers play well with the ID thing either, not Firefox itself, Fennec, IronFox etc. only Ecosia... But the Ecosia version is very barebones and I'd never use it as my main browser.
This alone is why it's my main mobile browser but man they could really improve the UI. it's very sluggish with animations and components that aren't material for no good reason. the browser itself is also a bit laggy but i can excuse the page rendering.
it's probably impossible to meaningfully implement, but if I could make a userChrome.css for the mobile app I would definitely enjoy it more
I wish the full page translation works for Taiwan mandarin. It can do China-nese but not Taiwanese or HKnese.
Fuck chrome.
Im shocked they haven't banned this.
For a short time Firefox mobile got rid of extensions and man I have not felt so betrayed by a corporation as I did seeing those "update"s.
I swear Mozilla always does its best to ruin any good brand image they have.
It's gotta be a secret term to their default google search contract or something.
Bad time for Firefox.
Atleast they brought back Extensions shortly
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