Firefox ad-blocking in iOS Firefox

[Zimbo]

The main reason I still use Safari on iOS / iPadOS is that there are good ad-blocking options available to Safari but not to Firefox.

Firefox Focus seems to have a capable ad-blocker included, but this is not available for the standard Firefox app to use.

It would be great if Firefox included an option to use the Firefox Focus ad-blocker in its settings.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[KMC]

Mozilla, are you listening at all? It's painfully obvious what needs to be done. As long as ad blocking isn't available in regular Firefox, your market share will continue to shrink. Implement it or lose people, it's that simple.

[pvfpinto]

A must have feature. I don’t understand why we don’t have this feature. 

[samuwell]

Love Firefox on Android and Desktop.  Shocked to find that Firefox is unusable on iPhone due to lacking adblock.  Looking forward to re-installing Firefox on iOS once this gets resolved.

[Travis_M_AOG]

Firefox for iOS having ad blocking

I honestly prefer Firefox across all the platforms it is available on. I’m normally an Android OS user, but I have received an iPad from going to college, and because of that, I wanted to make use of the iPad as much as possible, including with the likes of watching and listening to content on it. The issue here is how ad blocking doesn’t work on iOS, as you’re expected to download specific apps that CLAIM to do this, yet you’re given no real results that you can point to, especially on YouTube.

Firefox Focus doesn’t even live up to the hype of having ad blocking built in, let alone, it’s stuck on basically permanent private browsing… So, I can’t make use of even signing into YouTube for example, while it hasn’t even properly blocked ads in the first place. With how Android OS can make use of “Adblock Browser” to avoid all ads, AND it is a modified Firefox browser to begin with, it makes this effort on iOS ridiculous…

I’m not trying to put you down, Mozilla dev team, I’m just being honest, this REALLY needs to be fixed. Can’t Firefox have access to add-ons in the first place, so that ad blocking can be obtained? I doubt it’s unobtainable outright, I initially thought Firefox couldn’t be on iOS devices at all, and here I am using it to type this out to you guys! There has to be something that can be done about this, there is at least this available as an add-on for Safari, and while it won’t work as intended, it is showing that add-ons for browsers can be achieved for iOS. Is Apple just trying to block such an update? If not, then there really isn’t any excuse against this being possible, it is more than possible as a whole.

I have faith you guys can pull this off.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

Some similar ideas here:

Firefox built-in Adblocker 

Firefox Focus ad-blocking in iOS Firefox 

Work with the developer to integrate Ublock Origin directly into Firefox 

[okay_okay]

This would be a great addition!

[ElectroDad]

Ad blocking is a make of break feature. Their is much garbage on the Internet to go without it. Normal websites can become almost unreadable on the small format mobile screen without ad blocking. 

[jowra]

As a longtime android user i've just switched to an iPhone and can't believe it that there is no ad-blocking in Firefox. At least, please just integrate the blocking of Firefox Focus.

[R0bot]

The Brave browser has done a fantastic job with their iOS browser. I'd like to see Firefox catch up to them. 🙂

[Gorman42]

As it often happens, proposals languish for years. It’s unacceptable that FF still doesn’t offer adblocking by default on iOS.

[jouo]

Love Firefox, wish true ad blocking would be shipped.

Considering using Brave on iOS, as tracking protection doesn't get all ads, such as Youtube.

[Paulter]

The lack of AdBlocking functionality is the only thing that keeps me from using Firefox on iOS. Microsoft Edge, for example, has had this feature for years now, and I don't see what's stopping Mozilla from adding it to their browser. There used to be some obscure App Store rule banning add-ons in the past, but it is not an add-on if it's built in (like in MS Edge). 

[Carljensin]

Would love to see Adblock functionality on iOS