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Comment by altern8tif | Hacker News Reader

Go with Brave on mobile (https://www.brave.com/). They've got an ad-blocker built in.

The top 5 mobile browsers all allow ad blockers except Chrome. Samsung Internet which is based on the same chromium engine as chrome has had a similar ad block model as Safari for over 1 year now (and is the default browser on Samsung Galaxy devices - https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/think-you-know-the-t... )

Yes, the Samsung Internet application is recently (early 2017) available on Nexus devices as well. It's actually a great browser—Chromium under the hood, but supports content blockers, and is much smoother than Chrome itself. I've really enjoyed using it.

Also, disable javascript by default. It's really easy to turn it on per-site using the brave button in the toolbar.

The single best improvement I've made to my mobile browsing experience in years wasn't getting a new faster phone, it was installing Brave and disabling javascript.

For Firefox on Android I've been using JavaScript Toggle Enabled [1] for a while. Does what it says on the tin.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/toggle-javasc...

And if someone's too lazy to install an add-on or on an unfamiliar computer, disabling Javascript is a simple as going to about:config, typing in "java", and double-clicking "javascript.enabled" to set it to false.

I personally find Firefox way too janky to use on my mobile device. It's getting better but still needs some time in the oven.

Brave is a Chrome fork so for those of us who prefer Chrome it's a better option (for now anyway).

use firefox with the noScript (cross fingers to have uMatrix on mobile soon!)

then use your 10 top websites with whitelisted javascript access on firefox mobile, and full javascript on chrome and came back to say which one was faster.

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