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What do you use to block ads, cookie nags and email-subscription popovers? Or you just live with them?

This is one of my foremost requirements from a browser these days; how well does it block ads. As much as I like Safari it doesn’t seem to block ads as well as Brave, so Brave is my daily driver.

Safari doesn't have an adblocker, but delegates to the ones you can install from the App Store.

I totally understand that lacking a content blocker can be a deal breaker for some people. I wanted to ship my app to the App Store quickly in order to get user feedback.

For now, yes. But content blockers are the next big feature on my todo list.

Is it possible for third-party browser apps to integrate with content blockers for Safari, or would you have to integrate your own content blocker into your app?

Unfortunately this is not possible. Unless Apple opens that up, it's up to each app to embed its own content blocker.

The blocklists used by uBlock origin are freely available: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/tree/master/filters

Thanks! I have to review whether they can be easily converted to WebKit's JSON-based content blocker format. But I suppose DuckDuckGo blockers can also be used as-is.

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