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All the browsers on iOS are running the Safari rendering engine underneath so Firefox et al can't do their own extensions like ad blockers. Apple restricts apps so you have to only use their engine.

The new EU regulations apparently require them to allow third party engines but I'm not sure if that will happen anytime soon.

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The Orion Browser [1] has rudimentary WebExtension support on iOS despite being a Safari wrapper. Apple's policy also doesn't prevent browsers from bundling adblockers in, which both Brave and Edge do.

[1] - https://kagi.com/orion/

The support is already there, via BrowserEngineKit. The problem is that no browser company wants to put the effort into maintaining an entirely different version of their browser that works only in the EU.

This is, presumably, exactly as Apple intended. So sneaky.

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