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Ad blocking, not any way to run "browser extensions". The parent is saying "all you need to do is look at Chrome on Android & the fact that it does not allow ex
by enitihas 7y ago
Ad blocking, not any way to run "browser extensions". The parent is saying "all you need to do is look at Chrome on Android & the fact that it does not allow extensions at all." iOS doesn't allow any browser vendor to let run extensions too, let alone run them in Safari.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoSafari's content blockers are third-party extensions. It's not Turing-complete code execution yes, but it's still a meaningful kind of extension compared to Chrome's complete lack of them.
- nacs 7y agoThis is incorrect. iOS Safari does have the ability to run extensions on a page via the "Share extensions" feature. See detailed comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050936