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No, because Apple doesn't allow 3rd party browsers on iOS platform anyway. They can just enable content blocking at any time.
by izacus 6y ago
No, because Apple doesn't allow 3rd party browsers on iOS platform anyway. They can just enable content blocking at any time.
- Spivak 6y agoThis meme needs to die. Yes you can’t have alternative browser engines on iOS but outside of nerds in HN that’s an implementation detail that doesn’t really matter to end users. The stuff around the engine — the chrome — is the identity of the browser. Firefox gutted their rendering engine with project Servo. Chrome abandoned WebKit for Blink. Are they different browsers now? Of course not! Apple can’t just enable content blocking because that would potentially break apps that use webviews for non-browser type activities.
- whatgoodisaroad 6y agoI have to disagree: Apple certainly could block content in a selective way that avoids breaking apps (not that Apple is particularly averse to breaking existing apps). Beyond that, the browser engine may be an irrelevant implementation detail to the end user, but at the ecosystem-level, iOS's Safari lock-in has many harmful effects that are already well known and widely discussed.