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Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

HieronymusBosch

Comments (56)

  • NikxDa
    I was going to give credit to the direction Mozilla was taking here after their... questionable decisions in the past few year(s).Only to see that this is neither generally available, nor can you use it without enabling telemetry. I don't know who makes these decisions inside Mozilla, but I just don't get it.
  • WD-42
    It's been days (weeks?) and I'm still waiting for the option to appear for me. These "experiments" are super annoying when you are on what I'm assuming is the long tail of a rollout but the marketing/blog posts speak of the feature like it's already launched.If there's someone at Mozilla reading this: turn it on already! I want to get off Orion, it's so buggy, but the internet is unusable without an ad blocker.
  • Barbing
    Better title suggestions? Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS [Non-GA] ?
  • peri-cl
    > "ads shown in search results will still appear"Is that for a technical reason or a commercial one?
  • GeekyBear
    This is the sort of user focused feature you add when you take the phrase "user agent" seriously.
  • overflowy
    FYI: Doesn't block YouTube ads.
  • HexDecOctBin
    It’s not clear from the post, are they supporting the Content Blocker API? In other words, can I use Adguard with Firefox now on iOS?
  • garrettjoecox
    Any reason to use this over uBlock Origin Lite?
  • basedpolymer
    UBlock Origin Lite on Safari iOS is still king I guess
  • lotsofpulp
    How is this different than Firefox Focus content blocker on iOS, which came out many years ago?
  • ChrisArchitect
  • cedws
    Can it block YouTube ads? Would be a killer feature.
  • nonameiguess
    Didn't see it even after updating, then read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios:> This feature is experimental and is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout. It may not yet be available to all users. Additionally, remote improvements must be enabled.Apparently, you can only block ads if you allow Mozilla telemetry. Thanks, dicks.