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ergonaught | karma 2681 | avg karma 4.66 · 2023-01-05 06:31:37

Offtopic, but, I made the mistake of trying to read this on my mobile phone this morning, where I don't use adblockers per se. Served at least 6 ads, even ignoring the nonsense at the bottom of the page. So annoying and disruptive that I didn't manage to read the story, and will find the details somewhere else.

We really needed a reaction against this nonsense which wasn't just adblockers.

Bummer.

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idonotknowwhy | karma 490 | avg karma 1.59 · 2023-01-05 10:53:53

This is why Firefox is my default browser on Android and I use Ublock Origin.

Lack of real Firefox on iOS is the absolute deal breaker for me switching to iPhone

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acdha | karma 35410 | avg karma 2.73 · 2023-01-05 11:13:01

Firefox Focus works as a Safari content blocker: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/

It's quite effective at defanging the annoying ads without breaking things I care about.

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