looks like rendering adblockers extensions obsolete with manifest-v3 was not enough so now they try to implement DRM into the browser giving the ability to any website to refuse traffic to you if you don’t run a complaint browser ( cough…firefox )

here is an article in hacker news since i’m sure they can explain this to you better than i.

and also some github docs

  • @cccc@lemmy.world
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    261 year ago

    Unless something changed isn’t every browser running on iOS essentially just Safari at it’s core? That’s a pretty big user base to punish.

    • @HamSwagwich@showeq.com
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      141 year ago

      Yes that’s correct. Same with the apple keyboard, which is why the keyboard and browsers on IOS are such shit

      • @tahoe@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        What do you mean for the keyboards? Isn’t there an API for third parties? I guess it’s too limited but I’m wondering in what ways exactly

        • @lazyvar@programming.dev
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          31 year ago

          They’re right about browsers, but jumped the shark on keyboards.

          Custom keyboards come with some rules and limitations for obvious reasons, but they’re by no means the system keyboard in disguise like how browsers are all WebKit under the hood.

          Here’s documentation on custom keyboards: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/CustomKeyboard.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014214-CH16

          • @tahoe@lemmy.world
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            41 year ago

            Yeah that’s what I thought, it’s not really comparable. Doesn’t explain why they all suck so bad compared to Android’s custom keyboard though

            • @lazyvar@programming.dev
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              21 year ago

              Most likely different incentives and platform culture.

              Customization isn’t that big on iOS, other than the occasional viral fad, so there’s less interest for custom keyboards and in return less development spent on it.

              Monetization of custom keyboards is also really hard and due to limitations on tracking and collecting data the incentives that Android has don’t really exists on iOS.

              So what you end up with is a handful of custom keyboards often by big players that have bags of money to throw at it or as a companion to a regular app (e.g. Grammarly, GIF apps) to fulfill a specific function.

      • @redballooon@lemm.ee
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        I think Apples philosophy is that for everything you normally do on your iPhone you use an app. The browser is only for exceptions, and that’s reflected in the care they put in it.

        I don’t know why you hate the keyboard. It works just fine with a multitude of features for me, for which I’d install two or three different keyboards on my Android devices. Why on earth you would want to install a 3rd party keyboard of all things is beyond me. That’s the thing where you type in all your passwords.

        • RandomException
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          61 year ago

          If you aren’t native English speaker and therefore use a different keyboard layout than US, pretty much all features disappear on iOS. The keyboard is garbage compared to Android’s native keyboard and for some reason even after 3 years of iPhone ownership I still write more typos on the iPhone than I ever did on Android phones.

          I wish I could use some 3rd party keyboard, but because Jobs decided in the past that Apple’s keyboard is the only thing users ever really need, I can’t. There is a limited support for custom keyboards but in practice the user experience is garbage.

        • @HamSwagwich@showeq.com
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          01 year ago

          Then you are doing it wrong. I have one keyboard, Gboard, and everything about it is superior to the Apple keyboard.

          That’s but to say Gboard is good, is not… It’s crap. But Apple keyboard says “Hold my beer” and shows just how bad a keyboard can be when you really try.

          The IOS keyboard is absolutely awful. The fact that you think it’s good tells me you’ve never used a different keyboard.

    • Rikudou_SageA
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      41 year ago

      Safari will be among the first to follow this.