• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    There are some good iOS browsers.

    At the moment, I use Orion (from Kagi) and Narrow32. Quiche Browser is good, DuckDuckGo is fine.

    Discoverability on iOS is awful though. The store is just packed with SEO spam and corporate slop on top of all the passion projects or “benevolent” ones.

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      17 days ago

      At the moment, iOS doesn’t not allow any other browser engines. Every browser on iOS is just reskinned Safari.

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        17 days ago

        That’s kind of a blessing in disguise; otherwise basically all web traffic would be Chrome.

        Apparenty this is softening some: https://www.techspot.com/news/108965-japan-gives-apple-december-deadline-drop-ios-browser.html

        And Safari is quite performant on iOS.

        Maybe I’m too cynical, but I wouldn’t mind if that continues, just so there’s some chunk of traffic that isn’t Chrome and that web development doesn’t turn into a complete monoculture. A smidge of Firefox and Safari alone isn’t enough for that.

        (EDIT: My assumption is that if Apple allows Chrome on iOS, you can bet they are going to funnel basically everyone into it).