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To be clear: it is a willful choice by Mozilla to fully protect Android users but to leave iOS users in the turmoil of a constant stream of invasive and malicious ads. I specifically took my parents off of Firefox for this express reason. Brave has a built-in adblocker, as do many other iOS browsers.

And it is not like Mozilla isn’t aware, I believe there are 2-3 open issues on Bugzilla, years old, that have just been left to wither.

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Isn't there some rule that any browser on iOS must use the native Safari engine? So if iOS Safari doesn't support something, there's no way for Firefox to add that support. It's basically just a skin.

Yes, but like I said, many other 3rd-party browsers have perfectly fine built-in adblockers.

Hell, you can install Firefox Focus (which is a ‘private mode only’ browser) and that does have built-in adblocking. More perversely, you can use it as a content blocker for Safari.

(No, other browsers using Safari’s engine do not inherit the content blocking)

I repeat: Mozilla is willfully choosing not to protect iOS Firefox users from ads. Plain and simple.

What? Install Firefox Focus on iOS. Use it directly, or select it as a content blocking provider for Safari to get ad blocking in Safari.

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