Manual to use hypothes.is in mobile Firefox
via.hypothes.is does not work as they stopped providing an open proxy. It makes all URL forwarders and standalone apps on Android close to useless.
The piece of advice provided here works, but it is highly unintuitive.
The mechanics is this:
1. open a page where you want to add annotation
2. click on a bookmark as if you are opening a new page
3. since the bookmark is actually just a piece of javascript, it will simply load hypothes.is client
4. profit.
To make it work in Firefox mobile, the instruction is this:
1. create a new arbitrary bookmark on some page. It will appear in the list of your bookmarks.
2. copy the bookmarklet javascript code. I was not able to do it directly in the FF mobile, so I copied it on my desktop and sent it to the phone via an IM
3. edit the newly created bookmark and a) give it a name, e.g., "hypothesize"; and b) replace the URL with the piece of copied javascript code
4. now when you want to add an annotation, follow the process above.