Yes but their API is very limited and by design doesn't allow a good ad blocker like ublock to be built.
But on the other hand, if you care about your privacy, why would you trust a third party to intercept all of your web traffic?
uBlock Origin is free and open source, and its code is thoroughly reviewed by many contributors every release. I trust uBlock Origin over a filtering mechanism built into a closed source browser such as Safari.
But did you personally download the open source version review the code and install it?
Yes, I have personally downloaded the uBlock Origin source code. I have also reviewed the code and suggested improvements. However, I don't even need to download the code to realize the benefits of uBlock Origin being free and open source. Even if I hadn't downloaded the code, there are many other users and contributors who have reviewed the code, and you can confirm this by taking a simple look at the activity in the GitHub repos.
What are you talking about? You are the one who accused other developers of that. Let me quote you again:
> But on the other hand, if you care about your privacy, why would you trust a third party to intercept all of your web traffic?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34699213
My point is that because uBlock Origin is free and open source, anyone can see that it is not tracking users maliciously. On the other hand, Safari is closed source, so your FUD would be more applicable to Safari. There is no easy way for users to verify how a closed source browser such as Safari implements its content blocking. In terms of transparency, uBlock Origin is strictly superior to Safari.
Until you use an app with a web view…
But tell me what can’t I block in your experience with 1Blocker on Safari?
If we are comparing ad blocking extensions. We know that there is no possible method for a third party ad blocker on iOS to intercept your traffic.
You’re comparing an ad blocker to a browser.
The fact is that your ad blocking extension won’t work at all within embedded web views.
We know for a fact that a third party ad blocking extension can not intercept your web browsing history on iOS whether it is open source or closed sourced. It has no access to your web browsing history.
Your assurance comes from open source, mine comes from knowing that my third party as blocker doesn’t have any access to my web browsing.
You have been spreading FUD about fully-featured content blocking extensions like uBlock Origin, which is not a very good argument because Safari itself is closed source and its behavior is opaque. A combination of Firefox + uBlock Origin is fully free and open source, and its behavior is fully and easily verifiable. It is absurd for you to criticize combinations such as Firefox + uBlock Origin when the combination of Safari + a Safari-compatible content blocking extension is clearly less transparent due to Safari being closed source.
Apple's anti-competitive App Store restrictions are preventing the superior combination of Firefox + uBlock Origin from existing on iOS. Fortunately, regulations will soon make some of Apple's anti-competitive restrictions illegal in some major markets.
uBlock Origin not being able to protect web views on iOS is yet another restriction imposed by Apple. If browsers on iOS were able to supply web views to other apps and activate extensions in those apps, as the Custom Tabs feature works on Android, uBlock Origin would have no issues blocking content in iOS web views. Don't blame uBlock Origin for a restriction that Apple created.