How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android Chrome

Re:How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android C... by teekert on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:30PM (#21539081)

Firefox for Android has become quite nice, syncs all your stuff with desktop Firefox, inc passwords, via Lockwise, a nice password manager for Android and integrated in Firefox desktop.

Edit: Just sayin', when you want to rip the Google out of Chrome, why not go for something that suits you better? With less unwanted features that please the company not the user.

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Re:How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android C... by navigatr on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:44PM (#21539204)

The best part of Firefox for Android is that browser extensions work with it. That means you can have uBlock Origin on your phone.

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Re:How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android C... by chipperyman573 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:25PM (#21539603)

If anyone reading this is interested, there's an app called kiwi browser that is Chrome for Android with extension support. Downloading extensions is a bit annoying (the web store hasn't been designed for mobile at all) but it's worked flawlessly for me for a few months now.

The only annoying thing is a lack of sync, but I also download chrome for when I need to look through my desktop history or whatever. If you use a password manager that's pretty much the only thing you lose

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Re:How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android C... by jeroenhd on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:52PM (#21539265)

Although my main mobile browser is Firefox, I can't deny that chrome is better on performance and battery life (even with ad blockers installed in FF). I can understand why people use a Chrome(-based) browsers on mobile.

The replacement for Firefox for Android is coming along nicely but it's nowhere near completion yet.

Improving stuff like this makes Chrome somewhat bearable until Firefox can match Chrome in performance.

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Re:How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android C... by gravitas on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:58PM (#21539912)

I feel quite the opposite - stock Pixel 2, FF is snappier even with uBlock and SmartHTTPS enabled. I also enjoy features like the "Switch" popup bar when you open a new tab, once I have to use Chrome again for that one random website and start opening tabs from clicks I instantly start missing the ease of use FF mobile brings which Chrome does not in my use patterns.

Also, it's a lot easier to de-clutterify the main default screen and set a simple about:blank as the home page without having to dig into about:config (chrome://flags) - Chrome loves to hide things from you and force their world view (NTP), Firefox makes it all simple to disable and live a clutter-free mobile life. $0.02 USD :) (I just counted - I have to go disable 5 NTP chrome://flags to de-clutter the home page, whereas Firefox I just use standard menu choices to set a default home page)

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Re:How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android C... by m-p-3 on Friday November 15, 2019 @07:01AM (#21544152)

That, and I also switched my search engine to DDG. I also use Lawnchair as my home launcher, and you can also change the search engine there too.

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Re:How to Remove Suggested “Articles for You” from Android C... by fgnkj on Friday November 15, 2019 @05:02AM (#21543667)

Firefox also has this, so..

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