iOS Safari has extensions and content blockers though, e.g. 1Blocker is alright.

uBlock Origin unfortunately isn't viable since it needs to see the data and Apple doesn't permit that. Safari content blockers have to provide a list of rules what should be blocked and Safari acts on it without providing any data back to the content blocker.

Apple only allows inspection of the request, and either block or not-block result to filter out ads. This is very limited, as evidenced by comparing to uBlock origin.

Their reasoning is that they want to make it impossible for an adblocker to collect any data.

But I don't care about that because I would chose one adblocker that I trust (uBlock origin). It's a non-issue.

Now I'm forced to use a multitude of native apps that all have far more data collection and access than webapps.

Wipr works for me iOS-I never see ads, including on Youtube. How can uBlock origin work better than that? What am I giving up?

Does anyone else reading these things feel like they are in an Orwellian nightmare? Do we hate Eastasia or Oceania this week?

Apple, caring about privacy? Perhaps I'm just old-school, but I'll never be able to read that without the risk of coffee all over my screen.