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Content blockers for Safari are basically the same, but with the added bonus of stronger fingerprinting protection from Mobile Safari than Firefox due to the hu

• lorenzhs 6y ago
  You can also combine that with a DNS-level ad-blocking pseudo-VPN running on the device (like a pi-hole but without the pi). That gets rid of most in-app ads and a ton of tracking.
  • ciceryadam 6y ago
    Yep, you could set it up via https://apple.nextdns.io/ https://apple.nextdns.io/
• krzyk 6y ago
  Aren't content blockers limited in some regard? I think I read that one content blocker can only have a limited list of blocks. uBlock on Firefox doesn't have that limitation, and if you use Firefox on desktop you can important synchronization between those.
  • Spivak 6y ago
    Yes and no. Content blockers have a limited number of rules and you’re fundamentally limited by the expressiveness of the filtering language. But: * The filtering language is basically just ABP rules. * There is only a cap per “extension” so apps with lots of rules just expose many extensions.
• anonymousab 6y ago
  Safari content blockers are significantly limited compared to ublock origin. You're limited to domain allow/deny rules, and a quite small amount of those per app (less than a couple hundred thousand I think) and IIRC can't inject cosmetic filters either. These are critical drawbacks.