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- Took them long enough. Desktop Firefox is still the only place I can run real uBlock. iOS was the hole. Native is better than nothing, even if it's still WebKit under the hood.
- Paying for Wipr 2 + Filtr is still the gold standard on apple platforms imo. But it’s not open source and there are no custom block lists.
- For those reading this, it does not work with Firefox (or anything not safari it seems). Wish I had looked that up before excitedly purchasing it lol but so it goes, seems like a good project so I’m considering it a $5 donation
Edit: looks like starting with ios26 they have “filtr” mode which extends more broadly to other apps but “stick to safari for best results”
by Forgeties79 - Also a big Wipr fan, and generally a fan of the indie dev behind it too because it works so well. They’ve been responsive over email so you might be able to request a featureby anon7000
- Shot in the dark, but since you seem to know: does this work in the brave browser? I know(?) on iOS that under the hood everything is still safari so I'm wondering...by unselect5917
- I have AdGuard DNS set up (mainly use HaGeZi lists) for system wide blocking + AdGuard content blockers to catch some web ads and annoyances that cannot be caught via DNS.
Works very well, it’s been a good long while since any ad cheapened my web experience.
by leokennis - Challenger appears, one positive feedback so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321078by Barbing
- Some iOS developer correct me if I'm wrong
1. Safari supports extensions
2. WebView, the thing most browsers on iOS are required to use in most places, does not directly support those same extensions. In other words, there is no simple options to allow the same extensions.
In other words, Apple makes it harder for alternative browser to support extensions by requiring them to add their own support. That wouldn't be an issue if Apple allowed alternative browser engines but since they don't (in most places) then it's arguably an added hurdle.
by socalgal2 - Safari does support extensions (implemented as Safari App Extensions that can wrap standard Web Extensions if desired).
There was a time where WKWebView didn’t support Web Extensions (i.e. Web Extensions could only be used with Safari). But since iOS 18.4, the WKWebExtension API has made it possible. I’ve been using it successfully to embed a Web Extension into my ebook reader app.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebextens...
by LinguaBrowse - Decent browsers should block ads by default just like since 2017 they flag HTTP pages as "Not secure".by em3rgent0rdr
- To play devil's advocate. Browsers exist to browse sites. Remove the ads and most of those sites disappear, removing the point of having a browser in the first place.. Not every site but plenty of extremely popular sites that people love and enjoy are ad supported.by socalgal2
- How does browser detect ads?
What make you think this won't degrade into some cat and mouse game?
by j16sdiz - > Firefox does not block:
> Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers
> Sponsored content on the Firefox Home or New Tab page
So block ads unless it impacts their revenue sources.
by ImJamal - "better than nothing"by eviks
- This feels like a place where the "yet you also participate in society" comic fits.by llm_nerd
- > You can manage the sponsored content on the Firefox Home and New Tab page in your Homepage settings.by NicuCalcea
- It doesn't have those limitations on Windows or Android, so it must be an Apple requirement or limitation.
- Mozilla knows not to bite Google’s hand, who is the one that actually feeds them hundreds of millions of dollars.by rvz
- > Sponsored content on the Firefox Home or New Tab page
Not ideal, but (at least on desktop) you can set the Home page to a blank page, and there is an extension called 'Blank New Tab' that I've been using for quite a while.
by lakkal - The correct way to avoid ads is to not visit pages that use them.by WarmWash
- Ads are bad! Blocking ads on our own homepage? How do you expect us to keep the lights on?by pmkary
- > Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers
There are many subpar adblockers available both built into browsers on iOS and as extensions. uBlock Origin Lite for Safari remains the best mobile adblocker on iOS, I suppose.
by Shank - UBlock lite extension on Safari blocks ads on YouTube? Is Brave not better?by Cider9986
- Wipr is the best adblocker on iOS that I’ve tested. Indie dev, gives you a lot for free, has a way to block outside of web views too. Big fan, I never had consistent ad blocking experience on iOS until I used itby anon7000
- Search result ads are some of the most harmful ads, and Google's ads in particular are probably the number one cause of fraud, scams, and malware on the entire planet. It's a shame that Firefox whitelisted these, but I'm sure they did it both because Google pays for their existence but also Apple themselves probably wagged their finger for some reason.by brynnbee
- by nizarox22
- I hope, i will be see gecko engine at IOS
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/19063#i...
by ahmetozer - Already done by someone else: https://github.com/minh-ton/reynard-browserby tech234a
- What's the current excuse for not supporting extensions on iOS? Orion on iOS does and it's the reason I dropped FF ages ago.by temp0826
- what's the current excuse for buying a device which doesn't allow you to control what software you use on it?by tcfhgj