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This won't help in the above case so it's a little off topic. But I got rid of Twitter on my phone and still use Twitter on my phone - Basically you just open twitter.com in Firefox, and go to the menu and click "Install". Now you get a launcher icon to an "app" but it's just the website hosted by the browser.
Instantly saves 150Mb, stops it doing evil shit and because it's hosted in Firefox I get to block all the ads.
I would advise doing this with any app which has a desktop / mobile version and see what happens - Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn etc. Some social media sites will nag you to install the app but some won't or will be functional in spite of it.
Hey that's interesting. I haven't used Firefox on iphone for a while because I didn't think it was possible to add a blocker. Is that now possible? If so, which one do you use?
I believe you can't because Firefox on iOS is re-skinned Safari
Damn! Ok