I tried literally everything (troubleshooting mode, uninstall all extensions, use the default state on a new profile, use the default state on a fresh install, use arkenfox user.js, etc) before installing brave origin. Even tried Librewolf. But seems like a Gecko issue for me. I was later told to diagnose what is slowing it down using the network tab but I had already switched by then and didn't want to troubleshoot anymore when Brave Origin works flawlessly for me.

Also on Android I don't need any plugins other than an ad-blocker which brave has built in. Only downside to Brave is that I have to turn off their Crypto bullshit. So yeah brave ticks all the boxes for me currently.

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Seems pretty fucking sketchy. "Please use these tricks to bypass your admin"

I didn't think I needed plugins on mobile until I had the option. I still don't have as many as desktop, but there are some incredibly useful ones. things like Indie Wiki Buddy, for avoiding Fandom, as an example.

My use-case for browsers is just searching stuff, opening a website, reading stuff—the basics. Even on desktop the only extensions I use other than ad-blockers are Bitwarden, Sponsor Block and Return YT dislikes.

My eyes and brain felt like me being immunosuppressed by HIV and infected by 17 different bacteria everytime i went there without ad blocker. It is a fully accurate description

there should be a libredirect extension that gives you a bit slower but open platform instead of crap like this.

also as every comment said before, dont use brave. try fennec or ironfox.

"our site is supported by ads"

hmmmm

"!w fandom (website)"

scroll down

Owner TPG Inc. (2018–present)

huh clicks

"TPG Inc., previously known as Texas Pacific Group and TPG Capital,[4] is an American private equity firm based in Fort Worth, Texas,[3] with primary offices in New York City and additional offices in Washington, D.C., Miami, San Francisco, and internationally. TPG manages investment funds in growth capital, venture capital, public equity, and debt investments. The firm invests in various industries, including consumer/retail, media and telecommunications, industrials, technology, travel, leisure, and health care."

interesting..hm, i see. lets what else?

Revenue Increase US$4.67 billion (2025)[1]  
Net income Increase US$185 million (2025)[1]  
AUM	Increase US$245.9 billion (2024)  
Total assets	Increase US$13.5 billion (2025)[1]  
Total equity	Increase US$4.14 billion (2025)  

fascinating

Tvtropes has it too now.

I just browse Fandom pages using Internet Archive (or sometimes other archival sites except for Archive.Today and I won't be explaining why here)
Also Fandom has not been good in years there where controversies such as: that incident Mcdonalds paid turning the Grimace page into a ad,intrusive ads,not much protection against vandalism and so on...

Please allow my dick and balls in your face, Fandom 🖕

Oh nice! I can stop blocking fandom from my search results now.

The root cause is going to Fandom in first instance.

javascript is one of the best programming languages in the world. is was one of the first mainstream languages to adapt features such as coroutines, imports based on filename instead of classname/library name, etc.

it does a lot of things right. haters gonna complain about the 5% efficiency lost because it doesn't use static typing.

Nah, Cromite doesn't allow extensions. Other than the built in ones, it doesn't do extensions. There was another Chromium android browser that could do extensions, Kiwi I think. But it was a smidge shady how it did its search queries so I'd avoid it.

And side note: Cromite's Fdroid repo link is shot. It's been down for me for month, and I tried disabling VPN or switching to other countries and i either get a timeout or not found error, similsr to this forum post. So like I'd have to keep downloadong apks to keep it up to date, and I'd rather just pray every website i use works on FF than do that.

Did someone say gex

All that boils down to enshitification for profit.

Yeah. Surprise level zero.

Ohh, look at that, another website disappears from the net. Need to start taking any site that does that shit and spread it out on nomadnet

Fandom is pure evil. We should all get rid of it.

Fandom is such a shitshow... I was part of a wikia based wiki for more than a decade and experienced the transition following the buyout rebrand to fandom/curse (it apparently wasn't a buyout, sure felt like one though).

The first thing they did was fire almost all the local staff and replace it by their people, then the enshittification began; they introduced a new discussion feed to replace the forum function (which was basically just lazy a Twitter clone). It was completely separate from the main wiki and pretty much killed off that side of the community. There were a lot of users that just used that without ever stepping a foot into the main wiki, which obviously isn't very helpful when the site relies on users to create and maintain articles.

They also trippled the amount of ads on the site and introduced a new layout that fucked up the old one we had meticulously created.

I left that place in 2017 and so did pretty much all of the users and admins I knew. Once one of the top ten German language wikis, it's pretty much abandoned now.

Don't take career advice from Joe Piscopo

Since you're into YouTube extensions, also consider adding Enhancer for YouTube and DeArrow. The former adds more features to the player (my favorite is the ability to fine-tune playback speed with the scroll wheel), and the latter removes the clickbait thumbnails and returns to the old method of auto-generating the thumbnail (taking a screenshot of an interesting segment of the video and using that as the thumbnail, just like the old days). That way the content has to actually be interesting before I consider clicking on it.

And on Android the only thing you need is YouTube Morphe, which is a modded version of the YT app that includes an adblocker, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, Enhancer, an AI slop filter—and so much more—built right into the app. It's a must-have for any Android user who watches YouTube.

God bless weirdgloop

Do you have !w aliased for whois?

Attached is a screenshot of Cromite browser's "chrome://extensions" page with extensions installed and running. Also shown in screenshot is the Ublock Origin applet pinned to Cromite's toolbar

Thanks. That seems interesting. Will check it out. :)

I use this bullshit to redirect from Fandom links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/10187i7/how_to_filter_out_the_fandom_wiki_in_google/

1. Install uBlock Origin extension (available for both Chrome & Firefox)
2. Click on the extension, go to Setting (or Dashboard), go to My Filters.
3. Paste in the bottom

google.*##.g:has(a[href*="pathofexile.fandom.com"])
google.*##a[href*="pathofexile.fandom.com"]:upward(1)

But for any Fandom links.

It's a duckduckgo shorthand (called bangs) to search directly on Wikipedia.

Oh neat! Thanks - I had no idea this was a thing

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

Brendan Eich

All of his crimes against humanity puts him in the same circle of hell as the Koch Bros and the Mercers.

Sheesh, you schooled me. I genuinely didn't think it had the option for them, especially since I tried to test it with libredirect's crx file. Is it because you have to enable developer mode in the chrome flags?

+1

Honestly this should ship with many browsers, be a default for search engines and such.

Fandom.com suuuuuuuuucks

Nice. Thanks.