Mozilla recently yanked the extension from Mozilla’s extension repository. But one of those is uBlock Origin, which means you can get the same high-quality ad blocking on your mobile browser as on your desktop!īut wait… there’s more! Until recently there was an extension called Bypass Firewalls Clean that, as the name suggests, allowed you to bypass the paywalls at hundreds of news sites. Instead, they whitelisted 16 “official” extensions for Firefox Android. Once upon a time, you could use *any* Firefox extension on mobile, but for the same security and stability reasons as Google, Mozilla blocked most of them. I’m just trying to read about my favorite band’s next tour, but Chrome is allowing the site to make my phone look like an epileptic slot machine.įirefox for Android does support extensions.

But without any kind of aggressive ad blocker, using Chrome for Android is just downright painful – pop-ups, pop-unders, video ads, those ads that take up the whole screen that you have to scroll past. They claim it would be a support and security nightmare. I can’t imagine surfing the Internet without uBlock Origin, and neither should you.īut Google, the company, has long resisted allowing Chrome for Android to use extensions.

One of the most popular types of extensions are ad blockers. Google Chrome, the desktop web browser, is known for its vast library of extensions, small browser add-ons that fix minor (or major) annoyances.

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