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Comment by frostwarrior | Hacker News Reader

If you are on mobile you should check Bromite. It's a fork of Chromium with an ad blocker and better privacy (and not bs privacy like Brave)

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> some random fly-by-night chrome fork

you people will be remembered as the folks who installed a dozen shaddy tool bars on internet explorer in the 90s.

Just use Firefox and uBlockOrigin. jeez.

While I use Firefox as my main browser on all systems (i.e. Linux and Android and occasionally MacOS (only for testing purposes)) I also have Bromite around for those sites which just refuse to work in Firefox/Gecko and to test whether things work as intended on the Blink engine. I keep my own blocklist to feed to Bromite, based on the same lists as I use in uBlock on Firefox.

Sadly, I already tried it and it used to crash a lot, specially when I had too many tabs (10+) open.

The some random fly-by-night chrome fork is the most sane option I know since the only option left is Brave

Anything on IOS?

Reader mode gets me most of the way. Otherwise I just don’t bother with the website as they don’t deserve to be read.

Firefox mobile also allows adblocker extensions. With the nightly version you can even install userscripts.

I already tried it and it used to crash, specially when I had too many tabs (10+) open.

Not on iOS

Because iOS doesn't allow Firefox. I.e it's not the real browser, they can't use their own engine (gecko).

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