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I never really looked into BAT and only use Brave on mobile (mostly then as its UI for its javascript switch is far better than dealing with uMatrix on firefox mobile).

I had no idea that the whole thing is yet another altcoin IPO with excellent marketing. They really must be laughing all the way to the bank...

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> I had no idea that the whole thing is yet another altcoin IPO with excellent marketing.

Excellent marketing and a useful product with widespread appeal. It's weird that you focus on the coin as if it was the primary goal. It's merely a means to an end, and one of the best real-world uses of cryptocurrency that I've seen.

Not to mention, if someone manages to make a useful product that benefits users and makes themselves money isn't that exactly what we want? Rarely do incentives align with consumers these days.

Fx mobile has umatrix?!?! /Runs to download

Yes, you can install uMatrix, and it works normally. Writing from one.

fx preview has uBlock

Can't recommend it highly enough, the new engine is also a lot smoother.

The nightly build only for now

Huh? Fwiw I've run firefox mobile on Android with ublock origin for at least a year now.

I believe they're referring to the preview browser, not the current one. The preview is only starting to support extensions again.

Yes, I should have precised. Web extensions are a work in progress in Firefox preview. Currently it is only supported in Firefox preview nightly and only ublock origin is available.

Yes, it's the only supported "add-on", it's preinstalled and cannot be removed. It's like the people in charge don't even know what an add-on is.

Click on it, click remove.

I'm not 100% if I had to specifically install it from the add ons menu, but I believe I had to.

Also this is Firefox Preview we're talking about - even if it wasn't able to be uninstalled it's software that's in testing!

Same here.

Since using Brave, I have JavaScript off by default and can easily enable it for specific sites.

Makes most websites so much faster.

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