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Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by trespasser69@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Oh man. Once Firefox on Android got extension support, I hopped on that train so hard. No ads on mobile browser? Heck yeah.

[–] Nanabaz2@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It has extensions support for like 6 years at this point. Unless you got some extreme obscure extensions

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Huh. I was under the impression that proper extension support (eg ublock origin) only came about recently?

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Been working for a lomg time now.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

Well then. I'm unsure what news article I read that spurred me to try Firefox on mobile, but that's my recollection of the order of events.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You are correct in the proper extension support part. Until recently FF Android only supported a handful of selected addons made specifically for it.
uBlock Origin however has been one of those for almost a decade now.
I'm sorry you have been suffering ads all this time.

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

There were a few years when only a handful were supported. Before that it was as open as now, leaving compatibility responsibility to the extension developers.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

Well, if my memory serves well, Ublock Origin has been in Firefox mobile for a long time already but I get you.

Although even before I did the switch I rarely saw ads on Google because I have always used DNS ad blocking (whether using my pi-hole or AdAway root version) but yeah Ublock Origin is just so much better.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One thing I would like is to selectively enable extensions in the "custom tab" modal for Firefox.

When I open an article, and it's riddled with js and auto play video, I have to hit "Open in Firefox" to get uBlock to engage.

It would be nice to have the reader mode button in this view as well.

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

If it helps, you can dig into Androids settings and use Firefox for the default in-app browser for most apps. That's what I did, anyway, and it's been fantastic.