The browser app will never be good in my opinion without an adblocker. Host blocking works well on Ubuntu Touch, no need to make / writable more than temporarily. It isn't enough however. Some web sites deliver the ads themselves through their site and for those sites host blocking doesn't work. Considering the audience Ubuntu should be targeting, a well working adblocker should be a no brainer and of high priority.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1497210 Title: [browser] There is no way to block adverts, web bugs and trackers in the web browser Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I would like to block trackers from being loaded by the web browser, with functionality something like Ghostery and / or uBlock Origin Firefox add ons. As a work-around, for now, you can install Privoxy and use that, this works very well, for example see https://ubuntu- phone.host1.webarch.net/wiki/Proxy_Web_Traffic -- of course this is far from ideal for non-technical users. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1497210/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
