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If you haven’t heard

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/

So I’m looking for a new IOS browser

A couple of preferences

In-built Ad blocker

Private

No Ai anything

Thanks for any suggestions!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aren't they all Safari anyway?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On iOS the web rendering engine is the same one used in Safari, yeah.

But everything built on top of that is custom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This is accurate. Additionally, the WebKit rendering engine that they have to use is open source, so not too bad imo

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is exciting I didn't know it was free, or that you could install ublock origin through it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It has a built in ad blocker, so you don’t need ublock, even though it would work too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've been using it for a bit it has been incredible. Also being able to use dark mode extensions is really nice too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

First I’ve heard of it seems like a good choice so far

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Orion is the only other choice. And to be fair, Safari with content blockers works fine too; but obviously it’s not an in-built adblocker that you are specifically asking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's all Safari dude, they're all the same. I use Brave on iOS it works fine, blocks ads

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Brave works really well for blocking on iOS. At least is has for me for quite some time. And Orion is another solid option. If I could get Floccus extension to work properly with Orion I'd probably switch completely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I also use Brave, wondering what the consensus is on it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Brave is a series scam company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not an expert but Duck Duck Go browser is decent afaik. Happy to be corrected though. Brave browser is one I use a lot too but I think it has some AI stuff now, though I believe you can turn it off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

DuckDuckGo works fine for me, it checks most of your boxes. Not sure about the ad blocker, but I run a pi-hole on my home network so I don’t see most of them anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Quetta have released their browser for iOS and ipadOs. Built in Ad blocker and private. Have used the Android version and it's really fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Safari, until apple’s stance on privacy worsens.