Re:What is the value of browser diversity?
by limitedmage on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:14AM
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Edge on both Android and iOS has Adblock built in and Safari on iOS can have ad blocking very easily enabled with a content blocking app like AdGuard. Firefox is arguably harder to set up for ad blocking than either of these.
Re:What is the value of browser diversity?
by stekern on Monday September 21, 2020 @03:56PM
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Yeah, I was only speaking to Android in my post, and iOS is a different beast with different restrictions when it comes to browser implementations. Is Microsoft in any way competitive or innovative in the browser sphere? I haven't used Windows for ages so I'm out of the loop there.
If AdBlock is a built-in feature in Edge on Android, I assume you still need to opt-in through the settings (e.g., Settings -> Enable AdBlock), no? In which case the setup is Firefox is similarly easy: Addons -> uBlock Origin. Perhaps a bit less intuitive for an average user, but still very straight-forward to set up.
As an example, there's currently no straight-forward way for the average Joe to set up ad-blocking on a mobile device (excl. DoH/DoT using PiHole, NextDNS, etc.). Many non-technical users are, however, familiar with the usage of ad-blocking extensions in their desktop browsers. They might not know the nitty gritty of how ad-blocking works, but most people seem to have one installed. Installing and using such an extension is just as seamless on Firefox for Android as it is on a regular computer.