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>They lay a ton of blame at Safari's feet while giving no explanation as to why the Android landscape looks near-identical. It's not near-identical. I'm one of

>They lay a ton of blame at Safari's feet while giving no explanation as to why the Android landscape looks near-identical. It's not near-identical. I'm one of those that uses Chrome and FF on Android. The adblocking on FF is very good (using uBlock Origin). There are lots of sites that I will just never use without it. You'd have to drag me kicking and screaming to the ridiculously limiting iOS ecosystem. I can't believe people accept and even pay extra to be part of it, but I do appreciate that I'm not in the target market either.

joshstrange 4y ago
That's all well and good but it doesn't address anything the article author was railing against. They didn't even mention ad blocking or the like. I agree the extension landscape is better on Android, though with the last update (or maybe it was 2 updates ago) iOS got content blockers and extensions in Safari that I'm happy enough with. My point is the author acts like web /apps/ are being held back by Safari when we don't see Android users leaving the Play store in favor of web apps (on a platform that allows custom engines). If the article author was arguing the points you made I would have agreed with them, as I have with you, but their arguments about Safari holding back web apps by not allowing custom browsers just doesn't hold water. I agree that the browser could expose more functionality (some things I'd just as well they didn't expose) but we don't see that really happening on Android so why would custom browsers on iOS suddenly change that?