Same for me with Firefox, every video and ad coated site basically. iPhone 12 Mini

Tbh it's probably been a net positive, I just instantly bail after the first refresh

You can try adguard on iOS. It’s an app that you buy as an extension for safari but the block lists are very good and you can enable DoH systemwide as well.

I was trying to figure out why this doesn’t happen to me, and it’s probably AdGuard. Highly recommended.

As someone who switched from Iphone to Android, Adguard is very poor compared to uBlock, and it was in fact one major reason (of several) why I switched. But now that Google is killing adblockers, I might just stop browsing the internet entirely.

Firefox on Android does work and does run uBlock Origin all right.

I only start Chrome if some very stubborn (usually financial) site fails to work with Firefox + ad blocking; this happens maybe 3-4 times a year.

Hopefully Firefox will keep support for manifest 2 for the foreseeable future since they also have their own extension "store". In Chromes extension store new downloads of Ublock Origin have already been disabled and existing installations are slowly being disabled as they roll out the changes. I'm still on Vivaldi, but will be switching to Firefox very soon.

What's the last Chrome release that's going to support it? I'm going to pin that version for as long as possible.

Or you could use uBlock Origin Lite which has a MV3 version

But how long is manifest v2 going to survive on Firefox?

Firefox's v3 implementation still supports the necessary APIs, and there's a public commitment to keep them.

The fact that Firefox has had a near-perfect ad blocker for years and years, and the internet has only got less usable without an ad blocker and it's still struggling to break 1% on mobile is just so strange to me. It should be marketing open goal. Especially as the biggest competition has a conflict of interest that prevents them ever doing ad block well, so they can't lose out to a pivot by Chrome.

It's not obvious on Firefox Android how to do it.

They should absolutely put it front and center. A tickbox on first run.

Firefox on Android supports extensions so I have uBlock running.

I tried to switch from android to ios earlier this year. The browsing experience was so awful that I didn't make it a day due to the lack of ublock.

If you root your android then I believe AdAway is still a fantastic option because of the custom filters. Non rooted you can get personalDNSfilter from f droid, same thing but via VPN

To anyone reading this, the free version works well also.

>since Apple mandates they all be based on WebKit.

Unless you’re a EU citizen

I haven’t seen anything about this in a while. Do EU builds of Firefox actually exist yet? (Running on gecko)

Nothing is published yet. Whatever gecko build might be there might be whithering away on the vine, I don't believe Mozilla cares for supporting it just for the EU.

Based EU

What web pages are you seeking out? I feel like I read hacker news, the New York Times and some local Reddit channels more or less. Search is so squirrelly and the passion GeoCities pages or Uni home pages are long gone, and blogs are corrupted by insidious sponsor endorsements, let alone ads?

What do you mean? Reddit and Hacker News are link aggregators -- aren't you clicking the links? or are you only reading the comments?

There's a long tail of random websites linked to by sites like this one -- like the one in the OP!

Haha, true. But I think ad heavy pages are not promoted on HN at least.

And yeah, I do come for the comments.

I would prefer you to put hacker news in another category this site has quality information and comments unlike many other sites. This site also is not riddled with ads, which is a plus for all of us here. What makes you see that any other way?

The same is true for me on Safari. I've tried with and without AdGuard and the experience on plenty of sites that I just want to get a quick tidbit from is awfully painful.

Those sites and their 2974 partners only want to serve your best interests by providing those quick tidbits.

iOS 18 really screwed up my phone. Never had this issue with safari before then.

sucks to not have ublock origin.

I suppose, but Safari/Webkit shows that you can get what feels like 95% of the way there with static block lists which are ideal when they are sufficient.

They're faster and they're trustless. The only attack surface of a block list is that someone removes their site from the list.

you wouldnt have auto playing videos with ublock origin. 95% might be nice but theres a lot missing.

The static blocklists can be defeated easily by having ads served by the same ___domain.

In that case you are stuck due to apple's decisions.

Orion browser in iOS (by Kagi) supports ublock origin.

This is the main reason it has become my default browser there.