Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by VCFundedGenYer on Sunday August 16, 2026 @09:32AM (#49319902)

Technically, Firefox Focus (a separate browser for iOS) includes an adblocker feature that can be applied system wide via iOS's content blockers subsystem. This was released in the late 2010s.

Firefox including it is likely just reducing the steps required.

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by HeadOfProbing on Sunday August 16, 2026 @12:02PM (#49321242)

Love Firefox. But I always thought it was terribly misguided product direction of them to ever release this as a separate iOS app.

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by zymhan on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:32PM (#49321955)

Total speculation, but I wonder if Apple wouldn't approve a single app with all of those features.

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by enjaydee on Sunday August 16, 2026 @08:03PM (#49325087)

Really? I use it daily. So handy for junk links or stuff I want to search, eg products where I'd get tracked (more...yes I know there's still tracking at a higher level)

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by brightbeige on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:17AM (#49320329)

If you search the App Store and don’t find it, it’s called Firefox Klar in some markets

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by cpeterso on Sunday August 16, 2026 @03:41PM (#49322987)

Firefox Focus is called Klar (“clear” in German) in Germany because the Focus trademark is owned by a German news magazine.

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by adityeah on Sunday August 16, 2026 @09:38AM (#49319970)

Yes and not only that, one can enable that as a safari extension and get an ad-free experience on safari too.

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by Forgeties79 on Sunday August 16, 2026 @02:34PM (#49322476)

How do you do this? Straight up don’t know what the “content blocker subsystem” is ha

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by qilo on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:48AM (#49327251)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-focus-ios#w_use...

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by Forgeties79 on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:06PM (#49335161)

Ah duh I should’ve checked for that documentation. Thanks

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by wodenokoto on Sunday August 16, 2026 @03:49PM (#49323049)

Wait, it can be used system wide? I copy paste link into Firefox Focus when ads makes a page too unreadable.

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Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker by goolz on Sunday August 16, 2026 @10:17PM (#49325872)

Love Focus! Daily drove for years now. It is great that it nukes your tabs when you fully close it. Helps my brain.

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