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Comment by santoshalper | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, I won't use the web without an ad-blocker, full stop.

I really don't understand how people stand the internet with ads. In most cases I'd rather not use the internet than use the internet with ads.

We need a browser with the ad blocker native, never to be pulled out. Bake the damn thing in.

Orion is that for Apple products.

There was a Firefox that came bundled with Adblock at one point for Android, but since then Adblock has gotten in bed with advertisers. I'm not sure what's available these days for Android.

Firefox supports ublock origin on android.

Cool, last time I used Firefox on Android they only supported extensions on Desktop. I'm glad to hear progress continues!

I believe you have to install "Firefox Nightly" from the playstore to be able to use extensions like uBlock on mobile.

That's not accurate. For a couple years, Firefox limited extensions to a very short approved list, but even then, uBlock Origin was on that list.

That restriction has since been removed, however installing from local storage is limited to nightly.

LibreWolf, a fork of Firefox, is not bad. It has uBlock Origin bundled in. This is not quite an integrated ad-blocker, but it's the closest thing.

Not sure why you're downvoted. The ad blocker being an extension makes as much sense as "CSS" being an extension. Browser makers, why not just permanently integrate ad blocking into the guts of the browser? You could probably do an even better job, not being limited to the extension API.

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