I was using a friend's phone for checking something online the other day, and I was horrified at how much screen real estate was wasted on ads. I've become far too used to having adblock on mobile, and I had forgotten how bad it can be.

I always find it jarring, because I'm so surprised that people put up with it and just accept it as normal. I get that I am an extreme outlier when it comes to my willingness to tinker and also my stubbornness that makes me extremely willing to spend a heckton of time to solve problems that are annoying me, but for many people, switching to a different browser and using uBlock would be trivially easy, but they just don't, even if they know that's an option. I don't understand the mindset that leads to it.

"Video Background Play Fix" is also nice if you are a YouTube user. Background playing of Videos without the need for Premium.

JShelter and uBlock Origin here 🫡

Consent-O-Matic is nice too, clicks through cookie popups automatically

Add bypass paywall clean and Augmented Steam and you have mine

Combine with uninstalling all YouTube apps

It is explained here https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

They don't explicitly mention Firefox but:

"Chromium-based browsers like Vanadium provide the strongest sandbox implementation, leagues ahead of the alternatives. "

and

"Chromium has decent exploit mitigations, unlike the available alternatives. "

Since I myself lack the knowledge and skills to judge this, I have to trust the word of the developers.

Edit, correction. They do mention Firefox

"Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface."

they’ve trashed

Maybe blame your shitty iPhone that forces every browser to use Webkit instead of Mozilla/Firefox.

Apple is the one blocking you from having Firefox. Webkit with a different skin is all you ever had to begin with, because apple is a huge bag of cocks

Just stick with safari. All IOS web browsers only use WebKit anyway. You can use extensions on safari like uBlock Lite or AdGuard. Works well for me.

Orion on iOS will let you use uBlock and other extensions. It’s not perfect but it’s the best I’ve found

Bad time for Firefox.
Atleast they brought back Extensions shortly

With uBlock you can remove cosmetics and some page elements, the best setup is nextdns/pihole/adguard + uBlock origin

There's a native dark mode in Cromite. Go to about:flags The setting is Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents and it has a few different settings to try.

...And while I love dark reader, it's quite chonky, even on desktop.

As for old Reddit, I think you can edit host files on android?

After they neutered extensions with manifest v3, why even bother?

But it's kinda useless because it doesn't support the most important extension: uBlock Origin.