It also amazes me how incredibly unbrowseable tomshardware is now with all the ads and pop-ups.
Firefox Focus does work as an alternative.
Apple created a special system-level API for Safari Content Blockers. Apps like Firefox Focus, AdGuard, 1Blocker, Wipr can register filtering rules with Safari using this API. That’s why Focus can block ads/trackers inside Safari if you enable it under Safari
Didn’t this change recently?
the horror.
paying thousands of dollars just to be forbidden to block ads.
There are countless free and paid options on iOS too
Firefox Focus, Brave
AdGuard Pro, $9.99 once and you can use any blocklist you want (you can just copypaste from uBlock Origin if you wish) and it works system-wide with Safari
etc