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focus-ios

⚠️ Firefox Focus (iOS) has moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios

16Distinct people
21Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

⚠️ Firefox Focus (iOS) has moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-11-17 14:35:47 UTC to 2024-09-25 20:56:01 UTC.

024682016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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It's hard to take anything you write seriously when you're being disingenuous. >Unfortunately, these prototypes broke the web badly. The web was simply not ready for such protection. Yet Apple was fine disabling third-party tracking since 2001 according to GP? >Now, Apple, with their iOS monopoly A monopoly over their own product? >If you recall, Apple's stance on privacy is quite recent. The tech world has a short memory, but I remember Apple being caught red-handed slurping data from user's iPhones not so long ago. A quick Google search shows that Apple was embroiled because they enabled WiFi-assist by default, which caused some people to use more cellular data than intended. Is this the privacy-invading data "slurp" you mean? >But don't forget that they do this for strategic reasons Who doesn't? Apple is not a charity. We should rejoic
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e that Apple is monetizing privacy, because it means the system is working. >We're also working on it (is anyone else doing so?) GP literally just mentioned expiring first-party cookies after 7-days. I don't trust Mozilla _at all_ these days. Instead Mozilla seems interested in marketing themselves as privacy-focused only enough to grow their userbase for the near future. Once at some critical mass, Mozilla seems to proceed exactly like Google. - Google Analytics tracking users on configuration page, https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785 - Firefox Focus, a tracker blocker, sending user data to third-party Adjust https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/wiki/Install-Tra... - Firefox installing an add-on without user consent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931730 - Targeted advertisement via Pocket - SHIELD Studies and Telemetry
In Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy

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