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Thanks Google, but I already blocked all ads on my phone(hexbear.net)

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Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Am I getting this right, they’re letting you do the ad targeting for them and they’re selling it as a privacy feature?

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doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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“But they can only see you’re interested in a selection of broad topics!!”

Is supposed to be the big selling point here, apparently

Also lol at this bit about site suggested ads:

“You can block the sites you don’t want in the settings”

Okay, how about all of them

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Fibby@lemm.ee
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Firefox mobile + ublock origin for easy no ad life

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Lurkerino [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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You can put ublock on firefox mobile?

Holy shit it has addons, didnt know.

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mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.net
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There is currently a very limited (but good) selection of supported addons for mobile, but afaik they are about to publish a version with full support for them

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Helmic [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Bromite is like a cousin to Vanadium and GrapheneOS advises againsr using Firefox so I’ll trust their word on it for the time being, but I miss my add-ons. On desktop I want to use Firefox, but qutebrowser is chromium based and there are no Firefox forks that are keyboard driven, only extensions that shit out if a webpage fails to load because Firefox restricts add-ons too much for that to be viable.

Mull is like the Librewolf version of Firefox on Android. If you follow some instructions and use a Firefox account, you can get desktop add-ons installed on Android - fantastic for LibRedirect alone, so much easier to browse game wikis when Fandom wikis are redirected to BreezeWiki.

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jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.net
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Use Firefox, Liberal.

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Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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I don’t think this fits in the dunk tank

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doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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Is that where it ended up? I blame the drop-down menu

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Duży Szef [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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I mean this is the dunk tank yeah :/

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doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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Maybe that’s dunkworthy

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riesendulli@discuss.tchncs.de
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Degoogle.

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