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Interesting. Two questions: Why are iOS adblockers for Safari so rare? The major ones (uBlock and ABP) don’t support Safari. Why do I have to enable notificat
by SOLAR_FIELDS 8y ago
Interesting. Two questions:
Why are iOS adblockers for Safari so rare? The major ones (uBlock and ABP) don’t support Safari.
Why do I have to enable notifications to use the app? The explanation given by the welcome screen doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Edit: it looks like ABP does in fact support iOS safari now
- happybuy 8y agoSafari/iOS adblockers need to use a specific Safari content blocking format which is different from the classic ABP format. Presumably the extra work to support this format (and the content blocking extension API) discourages some vendors. Notifications are required as it is the only way to notify the app, and users, when we release updates to our ad blocking rules. Otherwise we would need to release an app update every time a blocking rule needs to change. We update the ad blocking rules generally weekly.