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Re:‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store by throwaway13337 on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:57PM (#28678809)
I quite like these safari extensions. They almost make up for the forced safari monopoly on iOS (but not really).

I use dark reader on chrome for computers. They also have a safari extension that surprisingly works just as well.

https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader

https://darkreader.org/safari/

I'm concerned, though, whether these extensions work the same as chrome extensions.

Can they view and potentially upload your browser passwords/bank info/etc?

Is there some limitation that prevents this in the implementation?

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Re:‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store by Waterluvian on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:03PM (#28678846)
Firefox had amazing support for mobile plugins. I haven’t checked in a while though.

I assume Apple doesn’t permit this so you’re kinda limited with an iDevice. (he says from his iPhone)

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Re:‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store by zaik on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:14PM (#28678900)
uBlock Origin for Firefox Mobile (Fennec on F-Droid) is a killer feature. I cannot remember the last time I have seen an ad on my phone.
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Re:‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store by Waterluvian on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:20PM (#28678938)
AdGuard (I think?) gets about 80% of them on Safari. But I agree uBlock Origin is amazing. It’s kind of Firefox’s killer feature.
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Re:‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store by mastazi on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:15PM (#28678908)
Firefox still supports mobile plugins but, a while ago (IIRC last year), the plugin API changed, as a result currently the selection of available plugins is much smaller than it used to be. I should add that I haven't checked in a few months, maybe it's improved now.
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Re:‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store by m-p-3 on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:22PM (#28678956)
Broad addons support is still locked behind the Nightly version, and you gotta do this weird dance to achieve it

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

Still the same a year later..

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Re:‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store by dralley on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:42PM (#28679075)
They didn't change the plugin API, they did a massive rewrite of the mobile browser engine infrastructure that broke most of the plugin APIs, and probably the test suites as well. So they are disabled until they can be fixed and proven to work.
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Re:‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store by gumby on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @12:39AM (#28679411)
In the case of safari you could use the built-in reader mode. I have it enabled by default.

Google of course will never include such a thing

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