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Safari has uBlock Origin now https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

It has uBlock Origin Lite. That's the same thing Chrome on desktop has. It's not real uBlock Origin and far less powerful.

iOS does not have real Firefox though; among other things, it can't run uBlock Origin.

Yeah, that's really sad and totally undermines my UX on iOS (my iPad particularly). On my Android phone and macOS FF is my go-to browser, a delightful, irreplaceable experience. Sometimes people are amazed by the experience when I show them, look, no ads. But then they go back to their phones and just use whatever crap they use.

I was hoping that the EU directive [1] would give FF a chance of using their own engine, at least in the EU, but no word from that camp, so... I guess not.

1. https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engi...

There is some activity in the mozilla bugzilla related to the gecko ios port, who knows when anything will be usable though.

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