Privacy Badger can be installed on Android despite not being supported

[konomikitten]

I am able to install Privacy Badger for Firefox Android (via Add-ons for Firefox) despite #1239 where @cooperq says:

Correct, we currently do not support firefox on android because mozilla does not support it for web extensions. See #1084

The compatibility setting should be changed for Privacy Badger on the Add-ons for Firefox Webpage so it cannot be installed on Android until it is supported.

[ghostwords]

@cooperq said he will mark the addon as Android-incompatible during the next Privacy Badger for Firefox update.

[ghostwords]

@cooperq, it looks like Badger is still available for Android: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/privacy-badger17/

[cooperq]

Idk then. I marked it as not available.

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On March 29, 2017 8:19:24 AM PDT, Alexei ***@***.***> wrote: @cooperq, it looks like Badger is still available for Android: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/privacy-badger17/ -- You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #1276 (comment)

-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[jawz101]

It'd be cooler if it did work :D. I've had it installed for about a month hoping it will do something someday.

[ShapeShifter499]

I was reading through the issues. I would love to see this come to Firefox Mobile for Android,

[jawz101]

... as long as it is not a performance hog. Firefox is slow enough on Android and I doubt it'll change anytime soon.

[cowlicks]

Well it seems like this means that Firefox for Android does now support webextensions. Initial tests are partially successful.

I visited panopticlick and pbtest.org on my phone, then installed PB and got improved results. It should be noted that PB cannot be installed from the eff's website, but it can be installed from the FF add-on store.

It looks like we need to do further testing, and we should start thinking about phone UI/UX.

I'll post screenshots as soon as I figure out how to do that from my phone.

[jawz101]

@cowlicks are you on any particular version of FFox for Android?

[cowlicks]

Before

After

Pbtest results remained the same

And some screenshots of sites that are broken on mobile

Lol I like this one

I guess the panopticlick results could be a false positive, but if they are we should understand why.

[ghostwords]

Side note: As you can see, pbtest.org tests are currently at least partially broken, reporting success when you have no protection installed.

[cowlicks]

@ghostwords this happened before for some tests because chrome was blocking 3rd party cookies by default in selenium. It could be another browser feature like that interfering.

[ghostwords]

Oh, interesting, but try going there with a fresh profile, you should see what I mean.