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Firefox, Firefox Focus, Chrome, Opera, Edge, Duck Duck Go, Brave (all reskins of Safari, essentially) are all rated 17+, which is nuts, but consistent with this

Firefox, Firefox Focus, Chrome, Opera, Edge, Duck Duck Go, Brave (all reskins of Safari, essentially) are all rated 17+, which is nuts, but consistent with this policy at least.

foepys 6y ago
But the pre-installed Safari is okay? All browsers on iOS are just Safari skins, so why isn't iOS as a whole rated 17+? All those web filters for adult content don't work. You might not be able to access pornhub but there are millions of other websites with pornography.
- Bud 6y ago
  Well, just to answer the question very directly, iOS as a whole isn't rated 17+ because it can't be. Obviously. It's not an app, it's not present in the App Store, and it has no age rating. So that takes care of that.
- skynet-9000 6y ago
  > But the pre-installed Safari is okay? All browsers on iOS are just Safari skins, so why isn't iOS as a whole rated 17+? Wow. That's an excellent and very telling point. What is the point of IOS's endless restrictions and censorship of free speech? Is the point really to protect users from exercising their own intelligence or guarding their own kids, or is it to protect users from alternatives to Apple's own products? It's kinda like Gatekeeper on Mac OS; you cannot (easily) install apps that aren't from the App Store. Was this only to protect you from malware? Really? It's like all of these restrictions have a dual purpose on Mac OS: the stated reason, and an unstated reason: to increase Apple's control over you. I'm actually surprised that Apple even allows web browsers at all, or third party mail apps, or anything that lets people access things outside their walled garden.
  - fny 6y ago
    Safari can block adult websites.
    - skynet-9000 6y ago
      By design, only Safari can block adult websites on IOS.
      - wincy 6y ago
        Not so, if you download chrome and enable parental controls with the adult content lock, it will block the adult sites.
  - Bud 6y ago
    Please don't pretend to be surprised about that when the last decade has been all about the iPhone and its pervasive and elegant access to literally millions of sources of content that is "outside Apple's walled garden". It's not credible.
    - skynet-9000 6y ago
      > Please don't pretend ... It's not credible. That's rather impolite. And I'm absolute surprised that Apple hasn't already eliminated the real web -- just like AOL and Microsoft (tried to subvert with MSN and IE), because full and unrestricted access to the web is full of negatives for Apple's business model. > the last decade has been all about the iPhone and its pervasive and elegant access to literally millions of sources of content that is "outside Apple's walled garden". No idea what this means. Are you talking about how the iPhone provides "pervasive and elegant access" to.. the web?
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Firefox, Firefox Focus, Chrome, Opera, Edge, Duck Duck Go, Brave (all reskins of Safari, essentially) are all rated 17+, which is nuts, but consistent with this policy at least.

foepys 6y ago

But the pre-installed Safari is okay? All browsers on iOS are just Safari skins, so why isn't iOS as a whole rated 17+? All those web filters for adult content don't work. You might not be able to access pornhub but there are millions of other websites with pornography.

Bud 6y ago
Well, just to answer the question very directly, iOS as a whole isn't rated 17+ because it can't be. Obviously. It's not an app, it's not present in the App Store, and it has no age rating. So that takes care of that.
skynet-9000 6y ago
> But the pre-installed Safari is okay? All browsers on iOS are just Safari skins, so why isn't iOS as a whole rated 17+? Wow. That's an excellent and very telling point. What is the point of IOS's endless restrictions and censorship of free speech? Is the point really to protect users from exercising their own intelligence or guarding their own kids, or is it to protect users from alternatives to Apple's own products? It's kinda like Gatekeeper on Mac OS; you cannot (easily) install apps that aren't from the App Store. Was this only to protect you from malware? Really? It's like all of these restrictions have a dual purpose on Mac OS: the stated reason, and an unstated reason: to increase Apple's control over you. I'm actually surprised that Apple even allows web browsers at all, or third party mail apps, or anything that lets people access things outside their walled garden.
- fny 6y ago
  Safari can block adult websites.
  - skynet-9000 6y ago
    By design, only Safari can block adult websites on IOS.
    - wincy 6y ago
      Not so, if you download chrome and enable parental controls with the adult content lock, it will block the adult sites.
- Bud 6y ago
  Please don't pretend to be surprised about that when the last decade has been all about the iPhone and its pervasive and elegant access to literally millions of sources of content that is "outside Apple's walled garden". It's not credible.
  - skynet-9000 6y ago
    > Please don't pretend ... It's not credible. That's rather impolite. And I'm absolute surprised that Apple hasn't already eliminated the real web -- just like AOL and Microsoft (tried to subvert with MSN and IE), because full and unrestricted access to the web is full of negatives for Apple's business model. > the last decade has been all about the iPhone and its pervasive and elegant access to literally millions of sources of content that is "outside Apple's walled garden". No idea what this means. Are you talking about how the iPhone provides "pervasive and elegant access" to.. the web?
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