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I can think of a few vital reasons: - Browsers with add-on support, to make browsing the internet bearable - DNS-level adblocking, to make app usage bearable
by occz 3y ago
I can think of a few vital reasons:
- Browsers with add-on support, to make browsing the internet bearable
- DNS-level adblocking, to make app usage bearable
- Sideloading apps, to access software which Apple nor Google would condone
All of these are dealbreakers for me.
OS upgrades are less of a concern on Android, where apps tend to support very old versions of the OS (5.0 is not at all uncommon to be supported, which was released 9 years ago), as opposed to iOS, where it's common that only the latest two OS versions are supported. This fact alone makes it so that an Android device might even be useful for longer than an iOS-device, which is entirely locked out of basically all of the app store after 6-7 years, with no way to salvage the device any more.
- nr2x 3y agoSafari does have content blocking integration in addition to ITP whereas chrome on android has no means to disable ads and provided a virtually unlimited tracking surface. I use both platforms, and they have strengths and weaknesses, but for the average user Android is going to provide a massively worse web privacy experience.
- propogandist 3y ago>- DNS-level adblocking, to make app usage bearable it's possible with AdGuard Pro and similar apps on iOS, although it's obviously not possible to run these apps with root privileges, like AfWall and others.
- fifafu 3y agoIs there really a browser on Android that has better addon support than Safari on iOS? On iOS content blocking can be done on a very low level by ad blockers posing as local on-device vpns. This doesn’t require root and is super easy to set up. (e.g. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS)