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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by Multicomp on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:27AM (#32649010)
For Android, I don't have a great answer for you. In theory you can install Fennec on F-Droid, version 57, the last version the last version of Firefox built by F-Droid that was based on the Fennec browser engine, but that has security vuln potential, increasingly so since its been a few years since Fennec -> Fenix switch.

For now, because I don't want to be hit by security vulns in the browser itself, I'm holding my nose and doing plain old Firefox mobile, leaving some of the tracking stuff blocked on my Pi-Hole, then letting my wireguard VPN ensure that even when I'm off Wi-Fi, my signal gets routed to my home connection so the Pi-Hole can stop some of the telemetry (but not all! some gets through no doubt).

Why am I holding my nose there? Because my planned next browser, Iceraven [1], is not yet out of alpha and published to F-Droid. I check every 3 months or so, once it is, that's where I'm going, because it's as close as I can get to Firefox Desktop, but runs on Android.

[1] https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by niij on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:06AM (#32649894)
The latest Firefox for Android (104.1.0) has a limited set of add-ons available. One of those is uBlock Origin. Works out of the box.
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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by marcolussetti on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:48AM (#32651157)
Firefox Nightly for Android supports most desktop extensions. It is clunky to enable them (you have to create a collection and then subscribe to it) and being a nightly build it does have some instability, but it works out pretty well.

Only caveat I've really found is that it gets stuck on the Guardian's website (after a few clicks).

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Re:AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 by prmoustache on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:11AM (#32649954)
fennec is up to date on f-droid, currently version 104.something
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