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I wanted to give the iPhone another try. But the web is just so so unusable. No way to install adblockers or real extensions in general. No push notifications.

I wanted to give the iPhone another try. But the web is just so so unusable. No way to install adblockers or real extensions in general. No push notifications. Just one single engine.

chunkyguy 4y ago
Push notifications have finally landed with iOS 16
- agust 4y ago
  iOS 16 is not out yet, and Apple stated that Push notifications won't come before 2023. So no, Push notifications have not landed (yet).
girvo 4y ago
You can install Ad Blockers, I use 1Blocker on iOS. It’s not as powerful as uBlock Origin obviously, but it does a more than good enough job by making the web browsable again at least.
philliphaydon 4y ago
The ad blockers in iOS work fine. I don’t want browser bloat on my iPhone. And I don’t want to be forced to install shitty chrome cos devs are like “oh we can’t make it work in safari”. Until chrome stops being the IE of the early 2000s I don’t want other browsers on iOS.
- js4ever 4y ago
  Maybe it's because so many things are either not working (web rtc, push), intentionally broken (PWA), or not available at all on safari. From my point of view, safari is the IE of modern times.
  - masswerk 4y ago
    > So many things intentionally broken (PWA) Mind that PWA are, as it now, as Mozilla has pulled out, pretty much a Chromium-only thing.
    - resoluteteeth 4y ago
      Only on desktop
  - dmitriid 4y ago
    > intentionally broken (PWA) People keep saying at as this is the truth. 1. There's no such thing as PWA. It's an umbrella term for nearly a dozen different standards 2. I think push notifications were the only ones missing from iOS Safari, so what exactly is "intentionally broken"?
    - the_gipsy 4y ago
      Push notifications is THE most important feature preventing companies from building webapps instead of multiple native apps. This is not a coincidence, as native apps bring revenue and drives platform establishment. Push notifications have been available on Android for a decade. As a user, this is really disappointing, especially when apple boast about "putting the user first" in matters of privacy. Native apps are much more privacy invasive than webapps.
jandorn 4y ago
I use a AdGuard Pro, StopTheMadness and a DDG for years now. I don’t miss anything as far as I know. You also have a choice of “different” browser that might offer more.
viktorcode 4y ago
Either you are trolling, or you are that singular kind of user site marketers dream about, who actually want to enable push notification and receive their spam.

I wanted to give the iPhone another try. But the web is just so so unusable. No way to install adblockers or real extensions in general. No push notifications. Just one single engine.

chunkyguy 4y ago

Push notifications have finally landed with iOS 16

agust 4y ago
iOS 16 is not out yet, and Apple stated that Push notifications won't come before 2023. So no, Push notifications have not landed (yet).

girvo 4y ago

You can install Ad Blockers, I use 1Blocker on iOS. It’s not as powerful as uBlock Origin obviously, but it does a more than good enough job by making the web browsable again at least.

philliphaydon 4y ago

The ad blockers in iOS work fine. I don’t want browser bloat on my iPhone. And I don’t want to be forced to install shitty chrome cos devs are like “oh we can’t make it work in safari”. Until chrome stops being the IE of the early 2000s I don’t want other browsers on iOS.

js4ever 4y ago
Maybe it's because so many things are either not working (web rtc, push), intentionally broken (PWA), or not available at all on safari. From my point of view, safari is the IE of modern times.
- masswerk 4y ago
  > So many things intentionally broken (PWA) Mind that PWA are, as it now, as Mozilla has pulled out, pretty much a Chromium-only thing.
  - resoluteteeth 4y ago
    Only on desktop
- dmitriid 4y ago
  > intentionally broken (PWA) People keep saying at as this is the truth. 1. There's no such thing as PWA. It's an umbrella term for nearly a dozen different standards 2. I think push notifications were the only ones missing from iOS Safari, so what exactly is "intentionally broken"?
  - the_gipsy 4y ago
    Push notifications is THE most important feature preventing companies from building webapps instead of multiple native apps. This is not a coincidence, as native apps bring revenue and drives platform establishment. Push notifications have been available on Android for a decade. As a user, this is really disappointing, especially when apple boast about "putting the user first" in matters of privacy. Native apps are much more privacy invasive than webapps.

jandorn 4y ago

I use a AdGuard Pro, StopTheMadness and a DDG for years now. I don’t miss anything as far as I know. You also have a choice of “different” browser that might offer more.

viktorcode 4y ago

Either you are trolling, or you are that singular kind of user site marketers dream about, who actually want to enable push notification and receive their spam.