• Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    They can serve you ads just fine on mobile web, that’s not it. It’s that the app let’s them track your behavior far better than the web browser.

    It’s both. Firefox for Android lets you run uBlockOrigin, effectively killing the ads.

    • MrFlamey@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Some other browsers (I use Kiwi because Firefox is buggy on my phone) also let you use ublock, and sometimes I wish I couldn’t use it because I hate ads so much I probably wouldn’t waste as much time browsing the net if I couldn’t block them :)

      Kiwi in particular has full extension support, so I can run unhook for Youtube and some other stuff like dark reader. I’m sure someone will come up with some other extension that just tricks Reddit into working in a mobile browser if there is enough demand.