Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior

Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by mary-ext on Saturday December 07, 2024 @06:40PM (#42353749)

The only browsers with actually good adblocking on Android are Firefox (uBlock) and Brave (on par with uBlock.)

Firefox is plain unusable on Android if you don't use an upper-range device.

Nothing else comes close, either they're out of date (Kiwi) or they're using Chrome's built-in ad blocking support (Vivaldi). Microsoft Edge has eyeo's native ABP port but there's no customizability.

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Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by JeDaYoshi on Saturday December 07, 2024 @10:27PM (#42354819)

> Firefox is plain unusable on Android if you don't use an upper-range device.

Interesting one - I generally found it to be the other way for me. Chrome was sluggish on my older phone, but Firefox was faster.

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Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by rstuart4133 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @05:45PM (#42361398)

I'd say just plain wrong. My preferred browser on Android is Firefox, but I use Chrome too. It's a three year old $300 phone. Firefox runs much faster Chrome, but I suspect that's only because it has ad blockers.

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Re:Lobsters Blocks Brave Browser for Scammy Behavior by mary-ext on Monday December 09, 2024 @04:46PM (#42370868)

that's never been my experience.

my Snapdragon 662 phone has never been able to juggle more than one tabs on Firefox without it OOM'ing, while I could on Chromium-based browsers.

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