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There are decent ad blockers available for iOS. But they have to be integrated into the OS and not the browser. Frankly, I don’t want a fully functional Firefo
by bradknowles 5y ago
There are decent ad blockers available for iOS. But they have to be integrated into the OS and not the browser.
Frankly, I don’t want a fully functional Firefox or Chrome to be available on iOS, because those browsers are essentially an OS all to themselves. And iOS is bad enough on its own, I don’t want someone else to force me to allow an entire ‘nother OS that I have to have on my device.
If you want real-deal Firefox and Chrome on your handheld device, then you need Android or other Linux-based platform. And you will pay the price for choosing such a heavyweight option with such anemic processors.
Personally, I prefer to have a relatively lightweight OS that is jealously guarded, with an App Store that is much more carefully curated, on high speed and powerful processors, and which can remain relevant and fairly current for at least five years or more.
You can either have your cake, or eat it, but you cannot do both. Choose one.
- lenkite 5y agoNobody is forcing you to install Firefox/Chrome - you are completely free to follow your choice. We merely don't want your opinion enforced on us and desire the freedom to install a browser of our choice.
- Spivak 5y agoThat's not how this works though. There at least needs to be an acknowledgment that once iOS allows Blink based browsers that developers will suddenly not care at all about Safari and tell users to install Chrome if something doesn't work. So like I get you but it's not really the user's choice and never has been.
- weikju 5y agoAlthough they still need to be installed as an app from the app store, ios 15 now supports WebExtensions https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/ https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/ But according to the uBlock Origin developers, the available entitlements and Webextensions APIs are still insufficient to run uBlock Origin..