Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by reacharavindh on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:34PM (#39132920)

Oh I don’t mind running iOS wrapper from Mozilla for Firefox mobile - but give me unlock origin, and I’ll thank you for ever!

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by afruitpie on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:49PM (#39133219)

You might be interested in Orion Browser [0] which is WebKit based and can install Firefox and Chrome extensions.

[0] https://kagi.com/orion/

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by user_7832 on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:53PM (#39133321)

Thanks, I'd forgotten about this.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by reacharavindh on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:37PM (#39135696)

That’s perfect! It is funny that Kagi’s mobile browser allows Firefox extensions on iOS but Firefox for iOS doesn’t?

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by the_gipsy on Thursday January 25, 2024 @07:21PM (#39137352)

Maybe it does install but the extensions never really work. Can't explain this otherwise.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by johnnyanmac on Thursday January 25, 2024 @08:07PM (#39137712)

Firefox mobile extensions on mobile was basically a graveyard during their mobile overhaul. But it sounds like they are slowly making it easier to support mobile extensions with a metaphorical (or maybe literal) push of a button.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by a_wild_dandan on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:19AM (#39139731)

Oh my god. If Orion supports the SponsorBlock extension, I'll die of happiness.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by zshrc on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:14PM (#39135390)

Please, they could do it even with the WebKit wrapper. Edge managed to get AdBlock Pro and Brave has a content blocker built in.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by luuurker on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:26PM (#39135554)

And neither can block as much as uBlock Origin because of Webkit's limitations.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by ashyaspen on Thursday January 25, 2024 @08:28PM (#39137865)

https://kagi.com/orion/

Orion uses WebKit and has uBlock origin so I'm not so sure it's a limitation of WebKit itself.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by luuurker on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:55PM (#39267025)

Kagi is trying to implement the Web Extensions API on top of WebKit, that's why some extensions work: https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#extensions

Write enough code and you can make these extensions run on IE6. :P

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by abhinavk on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:54PM (#39135912)

Firefox’s Strict Tracking Protection blocks more ads than Edge’s ABP.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by turquoisevar on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:37AM (#39139819)

Are people still struggling with ad blockers on iOS in 2024?

Just get the Wipr Safari extension, haven’t seen an ad since I got it the year extensions were introduced.

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