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Re:Android Oreo by chipperyman573 on Monday August 21, 2017 @06:46PM (#15068410)
The only reason I root my phone any more is for an adblocker. Which the iPhone conveniently has built in... It will probably be my next phone.
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Re:Android Oreo by nfriedly on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:19PM (#15068595)
Yea, I use Firefox + uBlock Origin on Android, which doesn't require root, so I'm covered there either way. (Annoyingly, the regular Firefox on iOS doesn't yet support adblocking, but I think that will be changing soon.)
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Re:Android Oreo by plopz on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @05:43PM (#15076633)
Browsers on iOS are just wrappers around safari. Apple doesn't allow 3rd party browser engines. So you will never see feature parity on iOS.
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Re:Android Oreo by nfriedly on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:05PM (#15076771)
Yea, I know; and to make matters worse, there's no way to apply Safari content blockers to other browsers on iOS.

But, Firefox Focus has a built-in adblocking and I believe that feature will come to regular iOS Firefox sometime soon.

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