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Comment by aleqs

16 days ago

Firefox on Android supports ublock, not sure why it wouldn't support it on iOS

It's because Apple does not allow Firefox to install an actual browser on iOS. Firefox on iOS is just a skinned version of WebKit/Safari. See 2.5.6:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#per...

  • > Firefox on iOS is just a skinned version of WebKit/Safari

    So are Chrome, Brave, and Edge. And yet, they support ad-blocking extensions (and so does Safari).

  • This is not the cause though - other third-party browsers on iOS can do ad-blocking, and also can use system-installed extensions.

    They could also launch an alternative browser engine for iOS and iPadOS in the EU.