Ask HN: Why is uBlock Origin not available on iOS devices?

Posted by markrankin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:20PM
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Why is it available via browsers on Mac OS?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is uBlock Origin not available on iOS devices? by orbz on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:25PM (#35547892)

I would guess it using a blocking mechanism that isn’t compatible with the plugin system that iOS safari supports. There are at least other ad blockers in the AppStore.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is uBlock Origin not available on iOS devices? by Raed667 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @10:36AM (#35556123)

Look at how Adguard built their safari extension. It is basically an electron app that talks to the browser. Not really in the spirit of uBlock.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is uBlock Origin not available on iOS devices? by cookiengineer on Friday April 14, 2023 @12:51AM (#35565636)

Because Safari and its WebView process are still the only processes allowed to run JIT compilers.

Other Browsers on iOS are just unaccelerated Safari Webviews.

In order to have a real Browser on iOS, with a real Web Extension API (manifest v2/v3) users would need to jailbreak their devices.

This has been going on for decades, and Apple pretty much gives zero effs about it.

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