I was using a friend’s phone for checking something online the other day, and I was horrified at how much screen real estate was wasted on ads. I’ve become far too used to having adblock on mobile, and I had forgotten how bad it can be.
I always find it jarring, because I’m so surprised that people put up with it and just accept it as normal. I get that I am an extreme outlier when it comes to my willingness to tinker and also my stubbornness that makes me extremely willing to spend a heckton of time to solve problems that are annoying me, but for many people, switching to a different browser and using uBlock would be trivially easy, but they just don’t, even if they know that’s an option. I don’t understand the mindset that leads to it.
I have that on Desktop, but I think that perhaps when I was installing various add-ons for Firefox mobile, this wasn’t yet available as a mobile add-on. Whatever the reason is for me not having it installed on my mobile, I thank you for bringing it to my attention; I have now installed it.
Have you tried ReVanced? I love having SponsorBlock, DeArrow thumbnails, and the ability to remove YT Shorts entirely from the app. The YouTube patches are amazing!
I only have two extensions…
… and yet, that alone makes me loathe any other mobile browser that doesn’t support them.
I was using a friend’s phone for checking something online the other day, and I was horrified at how much screen real estate was wasted on ads. I’ve become far too used to having adblock on mobile, and I had forgotten how bad it can be.
I always find it jarring, because I’m so surprised that people put up with it and just accept it as normal. I get that I am an extreme outlier when it comes to my willingness to tinker and also my stubbornness that makes me extremely willing to spend a heckton of time to solve problems that are annoying me, but for many people, switching to a different browser and using uBlock would be trivially easy, but they just don’t, even if they know that’s an option. I don’t understand the mindset that leads to it.
The “A” is for “apathy”.
“Video Background Play Fix” is also nice if you are a YouTube user. Background playing of Videos without the need for Premium.
JShelter and uBlock Origin here 🫡
ToXCancel is nice too sometimes
Similar for Instagram and tik tok https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/social-switch/
Libredirect generalizes the concept and implements it for a variety of websites
I have that on Desktop, but I think that perhaps when I was installing various add-ons for Firefox mobile, this wasn’t yet available as a mobile add-on. Whatever the reason is for me not having it installed on my mobile, I thank you for bringing it to my attention; I have now installed it.
As I’m not into microblogging I kinda don’t need it, but yeah, I get why it might be useful.
Consent-O-Matic is nice too, clicks through cookie popups automatically
Add bypass paywall clean and Augmented Steam and you have mine
You couldn’t link me to the exact bypass extension you use could you please?
Combine with uninstalling all YouTube apps
Have you tried ReVanced? I love having SponsorBlock, DeArrow thumbnails, and the ability to remove YT Shorts entirely from the app. The YouTube patches are amazing!
pipepipe app is much better YouTube client and it comes with ad blocking and sponsorBlock.