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3rd party browsers on iOS (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by ayon@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Given that all iOS browsers have to use Webkit for rendering, are there any privacy benefits in using say Firefox or Brave on iOS over stock Safari?

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[–] Porsche@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Orion on iOS which actually does support both firefox and chrome extensions (though very much a work in progress compared to the mac OS version). Ublock origin doesn't work unfortunately but the built in content blocker is pretty much just as good. Orion is noticeably snappier to load pages than Safari (I guess because it doesn't have Apple's telemetry?), blocks all youtube ads, and can use Kagi as the default search engine. Just because every browser on iOS has to use the same rendering engine doesn't mean they don't come with their own features or perform the same in terms of speed.

OTOH with Safari you do get better extension support through the app store, can use iCloud private relay, and is theoretically better in terms of fingerprinting.

[–] ayon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I didn’t know about Orion or Kagi search, thanks.

Do you know if Orion is open source? How does Kagi compare to DuckDuckGo search?

[–] brcl@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

Why would you say safari is better in terms of fingerprinting? Or are you saying private relay makes it better?