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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by dylan604 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:44PM (#36078391)
Firefox can't even be Firefox on iOS and is only a reskinned Safari. So, I'm more concerned that Firefox for iOS even exists since it's kind of a bait&switch to what a Firefox user would expect the browser to be. How would we all fell if we downloaded a browser like Firefox or Chrome on the desktop but to find out it was really a totally different browser?

So playing by the reskinned rules, blockers are not allowed in the way someone using Firefox would expect. Not just blockers, but any extension. It's such a totally not-Firefox experience, that it is even hard to type that it is Firefox.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by jorvi on Friday May 26, 2023 @05:58PM (#36089989)
That’s all very well and good but users want sync between their desktop and mobile browser. Firefox on iOS (which can have a built-in blocker just fine, reskinned Safari or not, see: Firefox Focus) does not have a blocker and thus is wildly unsafe. I will actively steer people away from unsafe browsers.
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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by dylan604 on Saturday May 27, 2023 @09:23AM (#36094619)
That’s all peachy but what’s that got to do with anything I had said?
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