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Better Safari with buggy content blockers than Google blocking adblockers on mobile. Also, Safari has had much better JavaScript performance on iOS devices since at least the days of the A7-A8, looking at JS benchmark results relative to SPEC2006 results.

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Firefox supports adblockers on mobile, and the functionality exceeds what Safari content blockers are able to achieve

Not really on iOS: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/7374

Right, I mean on platforms other than iOS of course. That's why third party browser engines ought to be allowed, so that vendors like Mozilla would be able to provide those features on iOS too.

Because safari gets to use its own special source and everyother browser on iOS has to use an ios web view, doesn't it?

Safari’s web view is almost identical to the ones that third parties use.

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