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Mozilla launches ad blocking for Firefox on iOS

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Mozilla launches ad blocking for Firefox on iOS

www.theverge.com

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Technology@beehaw.org · 17 hours ago

Mozilla is using Apple’s WebKit Content Blocker technology and the EasyList filter to block ads in Firefox.

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iOS also has Brave, which apparently created the adblock engine Mozilla borrowed (and weakened)

Afaik that’s a currently non-used library in Firefox desktop. For iOS, The Verge claims it’s just Apple’s WebKit Content Blocker + EasyList.

https://www.theverge.com/news/987247/mozilla-firefox-ad-blocker-ios-launch

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