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arc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

This won’t help in the above case so it’s a little off topic. But I got rid of Twitter on my phone and still use Twitter on my phone - Basically you just open twitter.com in Firefox, and go to the menu and click “Install”. Now you get a launcher icon to an “app” but it’s just the website hosted by the browser. I

Instantly saves 150Mb, stops it doing evil shit and because it’s hosted in Firefox I get to block all the ads.

I would advise doing this with any app which has a desktop / mobile version and see what happens. Some social media sites will nag you to install the app but some won’t or will be functional in spite of it.

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infix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hey that’s interesting. I haven’t used Firefox on iphone for a while because I didn’t think it was possible to add a blocker. Is that now possible? If so, which one do you use?

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- nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I believe you can’t because Firefox on iOS is re-skinned Safari
  
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  - SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    On Android you have to setup sync and install the ad blocker of choice on desktop, then sign in on the phone and it will pull your plugins and sync them, worth also trying on IOS as even on Android it’s not as simple as going to plug in manager and installing.
    
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    nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    what? no. you click […] menu, Add-ons and pick uBlock Origin.
    
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  - infix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Damn! Ok
    
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- arc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I only use Android so I don’t know. Check the menu and see if you have add-ons and you can install uBlock Origin.
  
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- SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  In order to add ad blocker on my phone I just setup my ad block on desktop, setup Firefox sync and then signed in on my phone. At that point it pulled ublock origin and installed it. Not sure if it’s the same process for IOS but it’s worth giving it a shot.
  
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Coldus12@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m using firefox on android as well, but i cannot find the “install” option anywhere, could you point me in the right direction?

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- arc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  in the Ellipsis. dropdown menu you should see an “Add to home screen” or “Install” button depending on what the website says in its metadata. The latter is for sites which have webapps.
  
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- TonyOstrich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m not positive but I think the option “Add to Home Screen” is the same thing as the above user mentioned. That’s what I have in my menu options, I don’t have an “Install” option there.
  
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Tom_bishop@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
OMG fokng genius. Tqq mate for the tip

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