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Yeah, it doesn't have any of the integrated apps or any of the tab features (stacking/tiling). It does have an ad/tracker blocker built in (vs. Safari). But I use Firefox on iOS because it supports sync and Firefox is my primary desktop browser. I like Vivaldi, but not as privacy-focused as Firefox, they don't have Containers, for example, and I use that heavily.

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Safari on iOS does have ads blocking, e.g., AdGuard, Wipr, 1Blocker. It doesn't work so well versus uBlock Origin, ofc.

Alternative browsers don't have that much control over what's rendered, so they are probably using the same content blocking functionality baked into Safari.

Orion browser for iOS permits both Chrome and Firefox extensions. I have Firefox’s ublock origin installed on mine. Seems to work well so far.

Good to know, will try it, although I don't understand how Firefox's uBlock Origin can work without having its own rendering engine. Are you sure it works?

It does work, at least mostly. My understanding is that the Orion team implemented the Firefox/Chromium extension APIs as part of their app's wrapper around iOS's web view. Apparently this was difficult but possible with the control iOS grants apps over its embeddable privileged web view.

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