Kudos to the firefox team!Īlso, to my second surprise, the very next section after installation on the README is “Building User Scripts”, and where to put them, exactly what I need, they just made my life so easy! To my surprise, instructions on firefox-ios GitHub page are super straight-forward, you only need python, nodejs and Xcode (of course) but that’s it! I really like how they kept such a huge project as this with such small dependency requirements, while much smaller projects require you to spend a whole afternoon installing stuff to make it work.
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But on iOS, I can’t install it, because Apple wanted to control the ecosystem, it kept the browser powerless for a good amount of time, recently it added possibility to install add-ons to Safari, but only in a specific way with apps, and only in Safari because Apple always launch stuff for its own products first to get a head-start, classic Apple.Īnyway, there is actually a very good open-source add-on for Safari iOS that blocks cookies requests, called Hush, it’s not as great as i-dont-care-about-cookies but good enough that my annoyance while using mobile web is gone! Unfortunately I cannot use it on Firefox for iOS, but I think I hate cookie requests more than I hate Safari or love Firefox, so very sadly I switched browsers for the time being.īut I have a plan, which I’m going to put in practice today: I will clone Firefox iOS from GitHub, patch i-dont-care-about-cookies together with it and build to my iPhone, so I can happily go back to my favorite browser. This way the browser itself could handle it, and so much better, I’m thinking like how iOS manages what each app can or can’t do, the browser could do the same for the websites, at the very least we could have a standardized pop-up so I wouldn’t need to search a different button each time!Īt the computer, this is a solved problem for me, I’ve installed the extension, great extension, works wonderfully. Don’t get me wrong, I admire the spirit of the law, that people should know how they are being tracked, but I don’t know why decades later after this law came into play, nobody at Mozilla or Chrome teams thought of pushing that as a web standard, it just seems so obvious to me: if it’s something every website has to build it over and over again, let’s make it a standard.