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I’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, wh

by hedora 3y ago

I’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 ago
Orion 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.
- freediver 3y ago
  > Orion is nice but it works by using Safari’s extensions API under the hood. To clarify that is not how it works, the Web Extensions API support in Orion was ported from scratch on top of WebKit.
  - jsmith99 3y ago
    Yes, they’ve mapped webextensions to WebKit api calls.