Firefox for iOS Gets Built-In Ad Blocker

[svish]

Good to know about this. Any form of ad blocking is always beneficial.

 

[dizmonk]

I can't find it. I just updated to 155.0 and there's no ad blocking setting anywhere without an extension.

 

[RobertCorwen]

Will the ad blocker end up in Firefox Focus for iOS too?

 

[AhRiHmAn]

Just got it now , option wasn’t there 30 minutes ago

 

[mrochester]

I really like Firefox on desktop and even use it on MacOS over Safari but I'm still not liking the iOS app very much. Small design things like the amount of space the tabs bar takes up annoys me.

I've been using Adguard extension and local VPN setup on iOS and that works pretty well at removing ads from Safari and all my other apps.

I'm also confused, is Firefox a skin for Safari or is it its own engine? I read that in the EU, Apple has to allow other competing browser engines but not sure if that is true in the US or not.

Firefox on iOS uses the WebKit browser engine. Firefox haven’t developed their own browser engine for iOS yet.

I’m not entirely sure that the benefit of them doing so would be anyway.

 

[antnythr]

App Store ad blockers only work with Safari

Why does Safari have access to features like this that other browsers don’t have access to?

 

[AhRiHmAn]

Are you new to iPhone ? 😜

 

[Yul Mtl]

Firefox won't block ads served by the site you're visiting, and ads shown in search results will still appear. Sponsored shortcuts and other sponsored content shown by Firefox when you open a new tab are separate from ads and won't be blocked.

Pretty much useless compare to other browsers like Brave, Edge (with the uBlock Origin extension)

 

[Hammerd]

You do realize the distinction between a web engine and a web browser right? A browser provides the surrounding features, such as history syncing, password management, bookmarking, and related functions.

You do realize that web browsers can come with their exclusive web engine right?