kratoz29

lol

Zerotier does not use wireguard and even in Android I can see a slightly bigger drain while using a VPN app, as it is using resources in the background after all (you can easily see that with adb or a rooted device), if you are not a battery freak then that's fine I guess, I live in a 3rd world country where I can seed torrents 24/7 and ISP will never care, and VPN are a hassle to me at best, I only use them when I needed, AKA when I want to bypass CGNAT and access my Synology NAS/Plex server.

I heavily debloated my Nvidia Shield TV and whenever I activate Proton VPN I can see it takes its resources which might affect my also heavily customized Kodi setup lol, that's why I don't like to run VPNs there either.

Yes, Pi-hole helps, it is not as good as an inbuilt adblocker or a more capable one like Ublock Origin, but it is better than nothing :)

Do you have an iOS device? I remember mentioning battery drain issues with either Zerotier or Tailscale due to poor background process management with iOS.

I thought those fan bases landed on different media 😅

Yes, I don't think anyone thinks otherwise, but built in adblockers are better than DNS adblockers, which consecutively are better than nothing lol (also you could pair both I guess and get an improved experience).

Ah, here we are again at the stage of hating the company that makes the games but loving the games it makes...

Just curious, any other companies that ring that bell?

You got downvoted but it is true, it doesn't while other browsers do, and block ads which is a nice plus.

Firefox offers extension support and that is a reason to forgive it a lot of lacks... But we shouldn't be conformist about the fact that the Android/iOS client needs a lot of work.

Perhaps if you tell us which DNS you are using.

I have tried it and while it works, DNS adblocking (and the hassle to remember to turn on the VPN for browsing) doesn't works as good nor is as smooth as using a browser with AdBlock support, or Ublock Origin extension.

Apple does not allow other browsers than Safari on iOS. All other browsers are just reskins of Safari.

And yet only Brave blocks ads effortlessly...

Of course it is an Apple issue in the core, but unless Firefox includes a proper ad blocking frautre (no add-ons needed because that's unlikely to happen in iOS) is also a Firefox issue, and I I'd say the main reason why it loses market when competing against Brave in such a closed environment.

I choose Brave instead of Vivaldi in Android as a second browser just because of 1 feature:

Vivaldi won't force dark mode in all the websites WHEN the device is in dark mode only, it includes a toggle to on or off only and it doesn't care if the device is light or dark.

I use automatic light/dark mode and Brave and Firefox (with the Dark Reader extension) works well with this.

Also the Vivaldi team is aware of this lacking feature since years ago but they can't seem to fix it somehow... That's fine by me, I can work my way without it.