[akkat]

I have been using Firefox focus for a while and I have 2 main problems with it. The adblocker is worse than ublock origin (eg. try to google Kindle) and there is no simple way to use tabs. I still use it to open links, but a lot of the time I end up having focus open it on Firefox.

[Sylos]

That's because Firefox Focus doesn't actually have an ad blocker. What it has is a tracking blocker. It just so happens that almost all ads have trackers in them, that's why it still blocks most ads.

The ad results on web search engines generally don't have trackers in them, that's why they for example don't get blocked. Also, webpages with privacy-conscious users tend to have privacy respecting ads and webpages that are typically opened in Private Browsing tend to at least have privacy-respecting ads as backup, since Firefox's Private Browsing has this same tracking blocker.

[freeflight]

> The adblocker is worse than ublock origin (eg. try to google Kindle)

Could you elaborate on this? Granted I'm using ublock origin only on Desktop, but I'm still kinda confused what's the issue there for you because for me ublock mostly does what it's supposed to and when it doesn't it's usually an issue of "not blocking enough".

[akkat]

That is exactly the issue, focus doesn't block enough. I am not at home so I cannot give you a visual comparison but when googling "Kindle" with ublock origin the first link I see is to the Amazon website, while on focus I see 3 big ads that require me to scroll down to see the search results. Obviously this is a constructed example but there are other websites (I can't remember which exactly) with lots of ads that origin doesn't block.

[dustincoates]

For me, the lack of easy tabs is a feature. I don't ever have more than four or five tabs open on desktop, but I have twenty open continuously on mobile Chrome and it encourages idle browsing.