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Re:The Mullvad Browser by jorvi on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:53PM (#35429372)
Firefox on iOS contains no built-in adblocking despite Firefox Focus doing so.

More bizarrely, there’s an open Bugzilla and GitHub issue on that, both a few years old.

Obviously I have transferred my entire family and social circle over to Brave. If Firefox won’t make their users secure, I will.

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Re:The Mullvad Browser by pxc on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:06PM (#35429578)
> More bizarrely, there’s an open Bugzilla and GitHub issue on that, both a few years old.

I can understand why it's not a priority at this point, at least, given that Firefox on iOS is currently a reskin of Safari, and the door is reportedly about to open for actual competition among iOS browsers due to increasing anti-trust pressures on Apple.

It would make more sense to me to address this with a real port of Gecko to iOS, and then you can just run the full version of uBlock Origin for Firefox on your iPhone.

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