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  • FYI: Doesn't block YouTube ads.
    by overflowy
  • Finally. I turned it on immediatedly. Doesn’t seem to block youtube-ads, so unfortunately I can’t uninstall Brave just yet.
    by delis-thumbs-7e
  • Better title suggestions?

      Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS [Non-GA]

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    by Barbing
  • Aren't they like 10+ years late with this? So after all this time, Mozilla comes with a minimal ad-blocker that hardly blocks anything (easylist only, and worse [1] ), compared to all other ad-blockers that have been available on iOS for many years.

    I don't understand, maybe i'm missing something...

    [1] "Ad Blocker won’t block every ad. Ads served directly by the site you’re visiting and ads shown in search results will still appear."

    by DavideNL
  • 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.

    by NikxDa
  • As others have mentioned it doesn't stop YouTube ads or search ads. Most likely because Mozilla is still quite dependent on Google for it's income.

    Which is why I think we need to be less critical everytime Mozilla tries to make money some other way. They need to become more self sufficient in order to improve Firefox.

    by c0_0p_
  • 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.

    by WD-42
  • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios#w...

    > Does ad blocking affect search engine ads? > No. Ads shown on search engine results pages are not blocked.

    A lot of the search results on top of Google are there to scam you, providing phone numbers for pass through services that charge $ for it, like flight cancellation:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1p6h81i/beware_fake_...

    So this omission should absolutely be addressed, but they probably cannot because of the Google Search contract...

    by OptionOfT

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