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I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm noticing some sites have become pretty unusable on mobile and I dunno what to do.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

firefox for android + ublock origin and/or adguard-dns

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Mullvad also has an adguard DNS. In android, if you go to network settings and then "Private DNS", you can add this hostname: adblock.dns.mullvad.net

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cromite if you don't like Firefox on Android.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sure if you prefer to support the google monopoly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I use Firefox on my desktop and laptop devices. I've tried using Firefox on Android. It's slow, and breaks on some sites. If you use it, good for you. I'm not gonna use it just for virtue signalling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have literally never had any of these issues with Firefox on Android

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use fennec and have had zero issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've never had issues with Firefox on Android, and because I use Firefox on desktop I can sync my browsers between devices

Honestly I find it faster on my phone than chrome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Virtue signalling and armchair activism is all they know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know the technical reasons. Probably due to people optimizing their pages for Chromium, since it's the de facto standard. Most pages load slower on Firefox for me. Chromium based browsers are usually better. Also, most websites of Indian government break for me on Firefox. It's probably their fault, not Firefox's. But I don't want to deal with the annoyance. Everything seems to work most of the time on desktop, though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop making things up to justify your poor decisions. Caring about privacy and security isn't "virtue signaling", its just a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bruh. I do care about privacy and security. Otherwise I would've used Chrome or Brave. Stop acting like anything except Firefox is trash. (That is the virtue signalling part.) They're not. I'd be happy if Firefox suited my needs on Android. I'm sorry that I can't change my experience just because you say so.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is very likely the best suggestion for people on android who have those concerns. I'm sorry it didn't work out for you but that's what you are seeing here, people reccomending the best option. No one is telling you can't use whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not really. I started out by saying that this is the suggestion if one doesn't like Firefox on Android. I also said that I do use Firefox everywhere else. If you still say that I'm "justifying my poor decisions", it's not simple recommendation. It gets annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you don't need access to another VPN, Blokada does device-wide ad blocking on iOS and Android.