How about just whitelist the good guys?
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox
by bmurphy1976 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:21PM
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That's what I do on Android, except I use Brave instead of Chrome/Firefox.
I change the default settings to block all JavaScript by default, and then use the Brave button to whitelist sites I trust and actually want to use.
Browsing the web (especially news sites) on my Android has gone from "a complete nightmare" to "tolerable" because of this.
Same approach, but I prefer firefox beta + noscript, which allows more fine-grained control (so I can permanently or temporarily enable js from e.g. reddit.com and redditstatic.com, but not googletagservices, amazon-adsystem, etc. .. on the same page.)
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox
by freedomben on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:33AM
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Me too. Brave gave me back the ability to browse the web on mobile.
Now if I could just force pages to load in Brave instead of web view, that'd be amazing.
Related tip: if you open the Google app, menu -> settings -> Accounts & privacy -> disable Open web pages in the Google app, that will fix it for google now links.
You should try Naked Browser (or NB Pro , their paid app with some extra features). I have been using it for close to 6 years and it is awesome :-) In my opinion it has one of the simplest and nicest UI with features like script blocking.
[Disclaimer: I am not associated with the developer in any way]. Ad blocking is sorely missing though.
The single nicest thing you can do for yourself after an ad blocker is to get Javascript under control. I personally am using JS Blocker, which takes too much effort, but allows you to selectively load JS. There are others - I like the control JS Blocker offers, but it is a bit annoying.
This is not without problems; there are sites that don't work/don't work well. I frankly don't care about most of them, so that's fine with me, and I leak much less data to the various panty-sniffers[1].
Life is much nicer when you take back control of what runs on your machine.
[1] I block FB, Google and several others' IP space, but the smaller adtech/government/who-knows surveillance shops are impossible to keep up with, and, well, defense-in-depth is the way to go.