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(I'm an American speaking about Americans)

Because to non-technical people, iPhones are a sparkling clean oasis in deceitful confusing crime ridden cryptic hell-hole.

You might think I am simping for Apple, but my stance is identical to yours. However I have the situation in my life of being surrounded primarily regular people. I don't live in a tech bubble or work in a tech job. My rants against apple are notorious, and I have largely stopped, because I can see how ignorant yet still apathetic people are about it.

Just a short story to encapsulate it:

On a recent trip with lots of friends we ended using my phone for most group shots and other nice pictures. The Pixel's camera really does shine.

However when it came time to share those pictures, I informed everyone it would be best to get google photos where we could all dump the hundreds of pictures into one communal album. This was quickly met with "What? I don't want to deal with that, why don't we just share them the regular way?" (imessage).

The greatest thing I ever did to help non technical people is to make sure they all have adblockers. I can only install ublock on android firefox and this is why I never recommend iphones. Too much malvertisement crap that apple won't let me block.

iOS has had ad blocking for years now. This was true quite a while ago, yeah.

"Acceptable ads" is such a crock. In terms of trust it's ublock or nothing.

??? I don’t think my ad blocker has an “acceptable ads” list.

I don’t mean something from Apple—maybe they have one, but that’s not what I’m using.

I will naively assume you are commenting in earnest and have missed the (old) news, which is most certainly what GP is referring to: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...

Examples of content blockers (not just ad blocking):

- AdGuard: https://apps.apple.com/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047223...

- Hush: https://apps.apple.com/app/hush-nag-blocker/id1544743900

- Wipr: https://apps.apple.com/app/wipr/id1030595027

- Vinegar: https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229

Orion browser for iOS allows both chrome and firefox extensions to be installed on iphones. (for now anyway, I'm sure apple will yeet them whenever they find out about it)

You need to change some settings first, but it worked when I put the firefox version of ublock origin on a phone.

I felt the same way but Orion browser (made by the Kagi people) can run android extensions including Ublock!

If it's chromium based have they committed to supporting manifest v2 after chrome kills it?

My understanding from Brave is that this year Google is essentially disabling v2 add-ons, but the code will still be in Chromium (for other things Google does), so Brave can just re-enable it.

But Brave expects that Google will actually pull the code out of Chromium next year -- when that happens, it is unlikely anyone else will have the time to maintain patches to put it back in.

I have my DNS on my android phone set to dns.adguard.com, which has the benefit of blocking ads in even "free" apps/games that are littered with them. This works even on mobile data, so it's better than even a pihole.

I wanted to do the same to my boyfriend's iPhone after seeing him sit through probably a dozen ads in one sitting with all the free games he has downloaded, but I found out that Apple literally does not allow you to change your DNS for mobile networks, and you have to manually change it for each wifi network. Weird for a company that claims to prioritize "privacy".

> However when it came time to share those pictures, I informed everyone it would be best to get google photos where we could all dump the hundreds of pictures into one communal album. This was quickly met with "What? I don't want to deal with that, why don't we just share them the regular way?" (imessage).

My family, including myself, all have iPhones. We’ve done exactly this for our family trips to the Black Hills and Ozarks over the last couple years, but we just share them with Apple’s shared albums. It works exactly the same as Google’s shared albums but with the iMessage and other iOS/macOS integration niceties. That could be why your family didn’t want to download another app to do what’s “already built in” to the phone, so to speak.

Just speculating, you know your family better than I ever could obviously.

They are not even aware that iMessage or Apple shared albums are even an iPhone exclusive feature. They don't even know what iMessage is. The whole iPhone experience is so seamless that for me to suggest alternate apps doesn't even make sense. Like telling someone they need to get a coffee maker when they have a brand new keurig right in front of them. The statement is more confusing than informative to them.

To them, the reason I can't send them pictures is because Android phones suck. Which they complain about with "Anytime an android sends me a picture it looks like shit".

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