Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
by Osiris on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:20AM
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I use Firefox Focus. It's great for things like reading news articles because there no tabs. Just one page at a time. It has built-in tracker blocking but doesn't support extensions like ublock.
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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
by bradfa on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:30AM
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Normal Firefox for iOS with "Strict" setting enabled in the "Tracking Protection" section of Firefox's in-app settings menu reduces nytimes.com advertisements on the front page for me to basically 0. In my experience, it's just as good as Firefox Focus for blocking trackers and ads.
Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
by ViViDboarder on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:17PM
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I use both on iOS. I generally open in Focus because it actually tends to be stricter. I find that if I open something in Focus I can, from there open in Firefox if blocking is too strict and sometimes it works. Another plus to using Focus, if a site is completely broken, I can just disable all blocking and not worry much about it because nothing gets persisted when I leave and blocking is automatically re-enabled the next time around.
Same workflow is pretty much possible without it, but it does make ephemeral browsing a bit easier.