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>AdGuard

I'm sorry, but a closed-source ad blocker offered by a for-profit company and offering a pro version seems scummy to me.

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I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. AdGuard doesn't have any scummy stuff like "acceptable ads", they make money by providing a fully functional free ad-blocker and selling a version that has more features. That's as un-scummy as it gets. (I have no relation to them. I use the free version. It does everything I want.)

By the way, you can get the source code at https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS.

There's also a list of open-source content blockers at https://old.reddit.com/comments/btlwda/, some of them are non-commercial.

Welp, I tried AdGuard again and it still doesn't work with Firefox. Safari blocks ads just fine but Firefox still shows them.

iOS content blockers only work with Safari.

Adguard Pro in VPN mode works system wide on iOS. I personally use this filter list https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

That's not entirely true, it also works in apps that embed safari (e.g. twitter's in-app browser).

I didn't see any ads in a quick test with Firefox on iOS, but maybe that was Firefox's tracking protection, not a content blocker.

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