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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by judge2020 on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:23PM (#31897734)
All of those features are possible on iOS via webkit.

Regarding mobile browsers specifically, their advantage over Safari here is blocking cryptominer scripts and autoplay videos: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/compar...

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by ginko on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:44PM (#31898017)
Adblocking only works* on vanilla Safari. I haven't gotten it to work on Firefox for iOS.

* For some degree of "works", ublock origin is way better

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by anonymousab on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:50PM (#31899847)
iOS as blocking isn't anywhere near as powerful as Firefox extensions, not what it will eventually need to be.
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by shreyshnaccount on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:42PM (#31897998)
But that's not the point-we want gecko and we want it to be good!
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