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		plopz on Aug 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Android Oreo Browsers on iOS are just wrappers around safari. Apple doesn't allow 3rd party browser engines. So you will never see feature parity on iOS.

nfriedly on Aug 22, 2017 [–]

Yea, I know; and to make matters worse, there's no way to apply Safari content blockers to other browsers on iOS.

But, Firefox Focus has a built-in adblocking and I believe that feature will come to regular iOS Firefox sometime soon.

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