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There's a setting on the Firefox desktop version; I guess it's not exposed in the Android version for some reason. These mobile phone browsers tend to be "dumbed-down" in general. Not hard to imagine it just re-uses the same error message from the desktop version, probably just as a simple oversight.

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Yeah it's probably an oversight, but that oversight feels particularly irresponsible given that it completely blocks the ability to access web sites (the primary function of a web browser) based on a third-party block list which can't be disabled.

Remember that visited sites are also phoned home to google when the setting is on.

Sure thats true? It would be trivial to just package the whole block list locally.

Last time I checked, which to be fair is a couple years ago now, only a partial hash is shared with google.

They removed about:config from android firefox builds except for the nightly builds. Mildly enraging, that.

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