Firefox 120 will launch with 200 new Android extensions this December
  • sarchar@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    Got a “disable your adblocker” popup on that article. The third bullet point in the article is about reducing annoyances like ads. Ridiculous.

    • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.ukEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      androidpolice have had lots of articles about ad blocking and picking the best one etc.

      Then they won’t let anyone view the site when they follow that advice…

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      The site owners have different values and notices than any one writer or journalist. The problem with ads is they became too intrusive. So ad blockers block all, including on respectful websites. It’s better for consumers to block all, but journalism does with no revenue and most don’t want to pay. We don’t yet have a middle ground.

      • janAkali@lemmy.oneEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        Somebody should make a standard for non-intrusive, not spying, ethical ads (no clickbaits, no contrasting colors, related to the article, etc. etc.).

        Adblocks would have websites that strictly follow these guidelines in a whitelist by default (opt-out).

        That’s the middle ground. But, I doubt any big ad company like Google or Meta would push for it, if not against.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Already had uBlock Origin.

    Just need the ones that remove all the stupid cookie/permission popups.

  • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    An about:config toggle to enable unoptimized extensions on your own risk, would still have been nice.

    Even now, i see no chance for niche extensions who would work fine on mobile, to be enabled.

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been using Fennec for some time. It’s a Firefox fork that lets you install any extension from the Firefox repository. It uses the “addon group” workaround though, hopefully this version of Firefox will work just like the desktop version.