• HostilePasta@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Literally just use Firefox for Android with uBlock. People act like this is difficult.

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      I’ve seen the following types of people:

      • People who ask how to do it, and get amazed.
      • People who legitimately are not bothered by ads.
      • Who think it to be a “headache”, and to just “let it be”.
      • Who are incredibly tech illiterate to the point of frustration.
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      I do this as much as possible. However the Firefox in-page translation software seems to do something that actually changes the page (and this can break things like forms) whereas chromium browsers do some kind of translation layer on top, so the page can run normally beneath it.

      It’s an infuriating reason but right now it means I have to split my browser use depending on if I need translations or not.

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      2 days ago

      Not available for IOS. For android firefox is bad at sandboxing and security. Vanadium if it had adblocking would be perfect for me.

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      It’s not a difficulty issue It’s that lots of us have tried Firefox and don’t like it.

      Personally I don’t use Firefox because it is buggy, is missing critical features, implements some web standards weirdly and has weird user agent styles. The end result is that many websites don’t look right and don’t work correctly and/or fully

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        2 days ago

        Interesting. I use Firefox for everything and haven’t had any issues. Maybe I’m just not that picky?

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          They’re pretty much just hating to hate or basing themselves on very outdated information, ‘missing critical features’ is a joke, because if it actually were critical it would’ve been implemented already (plus firefox is very extensible, with many plugins existing and forks adding specific features), if they actually had a point they maybe would’ve given a single example.

          Weirdly implementing some web standards kinda did apply a bit until a few years ago where all the big browser engine developers got together and pinned down the standard. If something still breaks that probably means the website used some out-of-spec workaround that only works in Chrome. Some things do indeed behave differently between firefox and chrome (an example of my own: file input fields with multiple types, eg allow both video and image are handled differently at least in the mobile apps). Yet again if they had a point maybe an example would’ve been great.

          Weird user agent styles?..?? I’m just confused honestly.