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Soon as I can sideload another browser with real AdBlock I am switching. Looks like the EU might force apple to allow it :)
by ttt3ts 3y ago
Soon as I can sideload another browser with real AdBlock I am switching. Looks like the EU might force apple to allow it :)
- mardifoufs 3y agoYeah I have been using android for every single phone I've ever had, but I don't see the point once iOS allows sideloading. They have locked down android so much(I kind of understand why, but still) at this point that sideloading is pretty much the only difference now. So why go for android?
- 0x38B 3y agoYou can side load apps, but need a Mac or a MacOS VM and XCode. But without paying the $99/year developer program fee, apps have to be reloaded every week. I paid the $99, as I grew tired of reinstalling the tethering app or GBA/PSP emulator. If sideloading becomes easier, that’ll be a big win in my book.
- hedora 3y agoI would have said you are being overly pessimistic about Android, but my Pixel Pro 6 is collecting dust for the reasons you stated. Using it as a webcam would be a win though. It has a nice camera that sort of works in open-source land.
- blibble 3y agobrave supports ublock origin filter lists (and has most of them pre-setup)
- hedora 3y agoI’m sending this on an up-to-date, not-jailbroken iPhone running the Firefox version of uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger It’s via the Orion Browser by Kagi, which somehow supports Chrome and Firefox extensions on top of the Safari rendering engine. I wonder if Apple will notice that they accidentally let us have nice things, and take it away. I really wish Android wasn’t a user-hostile privacy and stability shitshow of a closed ecosystem, but it is. Lesser of two evils, and all.
- jsmith99 3y agoOrion is nice but it works by using Safari’s extensions API under the hood. Safari does have a fairly thorough extensions API even on mobile but it’s missing things like webRequest. This is particularly a problem for the Bypass Paywalls extension because you can’t change things like referer. It’s the biggest thing I miss from android.