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ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
You don't need a special extension for this. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

Also, for browsing Twitter anonymously, you could use nitter.net instead of the official Twitter site.

ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page
Just have in mind that some advanced privacy enhancements (like toggling privacy.resistFingerprinting) can break sites in random ways: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1666160 .
ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page
> write a florid virtuous editorial

Related: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-...

ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page
You can access about:config and use add-on collections on Firefox Beta too now.
ReadCarlBarks··on Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page
Many users on Mozilla support communities and Reddit are reporting that their browsing sessions were suddenly interrupted by an overlay ad for Mozilla VPN today.

To disable this, users need to set browser.vpn_promo.enabled to false on the about:config page.

ReadCarlBarks··on Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google
>the only way to get apps [...] without [...] Google Play Services is this

That's not true. You can download APKs from sites like APKPure (which has been a top search result for "[app name] APK" for many years on... Google).

ReadCarlBarks··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
I'm talking about https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover

You need to check out the guide on how to create a new Goggle.

ReadCarlBarks··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
Look into the Goggles feature. It lets you create your own search engines with different lists of excluded or boosted sites.
ReadCarlBarks··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
I've been using Brave Search as my main search engine for months, and the only issue I have with it is that it takes longer to revisit smaller sites. Depending on your queries, you may stumble upon a bunch of dead links. However, this shouldn't be a problem for most users since results for major sites are constantly updated.

Brave Search also allows you to customize your search results with "Goggles". These are plain-text files that you can host on Github or Gitlab and use to boost or remove specific sites from your search results. For example, you could create a Goggle that removes "quora.com" from your results while giving priority to StackExchange sites and Reddit. You could also create another Goggle that shows results only from a predefined set of cooking sites.

Finally, multilingual users may find it helpful to create different search shortcuts with the `country=` parameter appended to them. For instance, if you add `&country=fr` to a search URL, you'll get French results.

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