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I'd just like to reassure everybody that you can quit using Google Chrome. I switched to Firefox a year ago. You can switch to something else too. Give it a try.
Wait, I don't need to nudge anybody. After all the ads start invading their browsing experience I doubt anybody will need much prodding.
Yep... when ublock quits working for me on Chrome then I will migrate.
Why wait? Migrate now. There's even Firefox for mobile with ublock
There is?
On Android, Firefox for iOS doesn't have addons because Apple.
The Orion browser has rudimentary support for Firefox extensions. UBlock origin seems to work for me. Best I’ve found for iOS
For real the votes here have so much “well it works on my machine so you must be wrong”-energy
Only on Firefox Android.
As far as I know, Safari is the only browser with Adblock on iOS.
Also third party browsers on iOS are forced to use a janky slow WebKit WebView instead of the accelerated WebKit on Safari.
In the EU, things are different and third-party rendering engines have been forced upon Apple, so people there may have more options.
This is true, however, Firefox focus has a built in blocker that’s pretty good, and the Orion browser for iOS actually supports Firefox extensions (even though it’s built on top of safari), and is also pretty good. I run bothe Firefox focus and Orion with ublock on my iOS devices.
I just installed Orion thanks to this post and I'm really impressed. I usually stick to safari, but I'm going to sit on this for a week and see how I feel about it.
2 quick questions; Do you know if it's possible to get YouTube videos to run in PiP on iOS/iPadOS? And is there a dark mode for the app's interface?
Yes, you can do pip, you need to first expand the video to full screen, then tap the screen to bring up the on screen controls, and you should see a pip button in the upper left of the video.
Orion doesn’t have a dark mode that I’m aware of, though it mostly respects iOS dark mode (with annoying exceptions). Though with firefox extensions, you can install dark reader, or you can install the dark reader iOS app, to get dark mode on all websites.
Edit: I’m not certain that dark reader iOS app will work with orion. I don’t use the app, I use the firefox extension with orion.
I use Firefox Focus on iOS. It blocks quite a bit without addons.
Blocks ads in YouTube too, and if you add sponsorblock you it'll skip in video ads too
Yes. You can install extensions on firefox mobile just like you can on the desktop version. IIRC it's the only mobile browser that does this.
Mull is a Firefox fork with even more privacy features. There are others that I'm sure people will chime in with.
Firefox mobile allows you to install extensions just like a PC version of the browser.
Or better still firefox focus. Ad blocking built in and it drops all the cookies as soon as you close it.
I keep firefox on mobile for when I need to go to a trusted site, firefox focus for everything else.
I just wanted to drop in to say I do the same!! Especially on iOS where regular Firefox is kinda so-so (but better than Safari) Firefox Focus meanwhile is King
I personally enjoy Ecosia. They're the ones who plant trees whenever you use their search engine, and while not the best, at least their mobile app has a built in ad-blocker that imo seems pretty decent.
Mostly inertia and other priorities...
It’s ez
Hopefully it will break badly enough to move people past their inertia so then there can be a more serious competitor to Chrome, or maybe even multiple competitors to Chrome.
I tried but for some reason certain websites can't play any videos on Firefox without buffering every like 5 or 10 seconds for a few seconds. It happens on 100% of videos on YouTube and like 50% of videos on any other website. It's super annoying, so back to chrome I went and I guess I'll stay until ublock bites the dust and I have to move.
Google owns YouTube so there's probably some shenanigans there
Thats Googles fault. Firefox has an user agent switcher -addon. Flip it there to appear as Chrome, and suddenly Youtube bufferring problems drastically lessen.
Also if you are in EU, consider making a complaint about this assholish and anti-competetive behaviour to your country's competition/trade authority. Also EU's, if you feel like being an extra responsible EU citizen. These assholes at Google need to be fined to extinction.
Yup
It also blocks everything else on the website.
It's definitely more of a hassle than most people will want to deal with. But I still prefer to have it and selectively enable things as needed, because quite frankly I'd rather deal with predictable hassles of my own making than be bombarded with new bullshit every day due to ever worsening trends in enshittification.
Tip: its not better if you know its to much hassle for most people. But dont let that stop you from posting your ideas. The more power to those that such is not a hassle.
People have different tolerances for these kinds of things. Some people never bother to even get an ad blocker. Some won't touch settings no matter how simple. And some want to tweak and modify endlessly.
iirc some hardened firefox configs, including arkenfox, recommend using ublock ONLY. other privacy extensions like noscript aren't worth using because ublock replicates all of their features plus more
Why not both?
Because it can ruin your browsing experience all together. It'd be like installing multiple anti-virus programs on your Windows PC
look into umatrix, it's a better noscript, made by the same dev as ublock.
Formerly made by the same dev. Not because somebody else took it over, but because he deprecated it entirely.
ah ok, I didn't realize.
You can basically use uBlock Origin as NoScript (or I think ScriptSafe? or did they change back?) if you put it into "hard mode."
I personally like "medium mode". I guess I get why they hide it behind several obscure steps, but I feel like they should advertise it more. It's a nice middle ground. Still breaks every website the first time you go there but meh. Small price to pay.
Rocking Firefox even from my Android phone. It works great!
Firefox reader mode is the champ, especially when combined with uBlock
You can even keep all your bookmarks
I don't understand the inertia if I'm honest.
Easy to understand. People don't like change.
Despite 25 years in IT, and knowing better, I only recently switched back to Firefox. I expected a fair bit of hassle, and I won't say the transition was seamless, but I was astounded.
Those of us in the know aren't doing any good circle jerking ourselves over our superior browser. We need to get our friends, coworkers and relatives engaged. And that should be easy if we contrast our ad-free experience with theirs.
On that note: Anyone wanting the same look and feel of Chrome without ads should try Brave. No add-ons or plugins necessary.
Nobody that cares about seeing ads is still on chrome. I bet they don't lose more than 8-10% market share in a year even that is probably super high
I've always used Firefox on every other device I own, but now I need to do something about my Chromebook.