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Personally I use Adguard + their DNS. This combination is very good, but WebView blocking will be working with the DNS part, not content blocker. So alternative is PiHole.", "context": "", "use_case": "Safari ad blocking in apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "NetNewsWire Status"}, {"id": 741248019, "item_id": 46328001, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328001", "by": "bjord", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Might be worth trying one of these with regular safari", "excerpt": "I'm a kagi fan, but my family members who I've had try orion ran into quite a few issues. Might be worth trying one of these with regular safari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr-2/id1662217862 on android I use firefox with the regular ublock origin extension", "context": "", "use_case": "ad blocking on iOS Safari", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is Firefox Firefucked?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 734296209, "item_id": 45893513, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893513", "by": "nsagent", "date": "2025-11-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it would block things I didn't want and there was no recourse except disabling it wholesale", "excerpt": "I was previously using Wipr 2, but got tired of the fact that it would block things I didn't want and there was no recourse except disabling it wholesale (for example, I noticed it blocks any element with an id of 'privacy_policy' or 'privacypolicy,' which I ran into when actually trying to read the privacy policy for a service I use). wBlock fixes that by allowing you to have custom rules. 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Personally I use Adguard + their DNS. This combination is very good, but WebView blocking will be working with the DNS part, not content blocker. So alternative is PiHole.", "context": "", "use_case": "Safari ad blocking in apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "NetNewsWire Status"}, {"id": 741248019, "item_id": 46328001, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328001", "by": "bjord", "date": "2025-12-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Might be worth trying one of these with regular safari", "excerpt": "I'm a kagi fan, but my family members who I've had try orion ran into quite a few issues. Might be worth trying one of these with regular safari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr-2/id1662217862 on android I use firefox with the regular ublock origin extension", "context": "", "use_case": "ad blocking on iOS Safari", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is Firefox Firefucked?"}, {"id": 734296209, "item_id": 45893513, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893513", "by": "nsagent", "date": "2025-11-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it would block things I didn't want and there was no recourse except disabling it wholesale", "excerpt": "I was previously using Wipr 2, but got tired of the fact that it would block things I didn't want and there was no recourse except disabling it wholesale (for example, I noticed it blocks any element with an id of 'privacy_policy' or 'privacypolicy,' which I ran into when actually trying to read the privacy policy for a service I use). wBlock fixes that by allowing you to have custom rules. 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