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It would be nice if iOS Safari added support for the same browser extensions that are available on desktop browsers. Why have they not? Probably something about CPU usage and battery life, but boy-howdy the web is a shitshow without ad blockers, privacy enhancers, etc.

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Safari's solution is content blockers. Part of the value proposition is they have less opportunity to spy on you than traditional extensions, because they can't actually read any page content.

The best one I've found is Wipr. It's almost as good as uBlock Origin. It seems there's a trade-off in approaches.

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