Happy presidents day everyone. I got a nasty surprise this morning. I looked at https://www.weforum.org/partners/#D and discovered the company that I work for is on the list of WEF partners. No wonder they’ve been shoving vax requirement on its employees. They were calling it the “Great Resignation” and I was calling it the “Great Reset” but I didn’t connect the dots until this morning.
I suggest everyone checks this partners page and look for your employer.
I'd recommend Safari, believe it or not.
For ad-blocking, you can run the AdGuard extension for Safari or, even better, set up a Pi-Hole connected to your local Wi-Fi network and configure it as the DNS server for network wide ad-blocking on all devices (you'll need a bit of tech knowledge to set that up).
Why?
From Apple's development guidelines: Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
That's simply fancy techspeak that mean all "3rd party" web browsers are simply custom wrappers for Safari. Even worse, unless you have a Jailbreak, only Safari can use the Nitro JavaScript renderer, so it will load websites faster than any other browser.
With that being said, if you're happy with Brave and its ad blocker works OK for you, no worries sticking with it.
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Thanks - I’ll give it a go. The feature I do like about Brave is it not retaining history. If it is just a wrapper for Safari, does Safari keep a history and should I be going there to clean it up?
I don't have an iOS device anymore, so can't confirm the answer to the last question.
In any case, you can go to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Website Data, then tap Remove All Website Data to clear any history there.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
And if you don't want history saved in Safari, open everything in a private tab?
Thanks for the insight.
I think that only applies to app store apps. Firefox is not in the Mac app store last I checked, quite likely for this reason.
I'm talking about iOS, not macOS, correct.