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Installed on my iPhone. I will give it a test drive. Safari is awful.


I switched to Orion on my iPhone about a month ago from a recommendation on HN.

I’m a happy user, no real issues encountered.

The biggest annoyance I had with Safari were sites that would autoplay videos with sound.


What's wrong with Safari?


Lack of UI customization and bad extension support


And no ad block, you need additional apps for that. Ad blocking should be a basic feature in a browser in 2025. Apple talks a good game on "no tracking" but they don't block the ads, and I don't understand why not. The current ad-based revenue model of the web should be completely impossible, that would get rid of entire swathes of useless SEO sites and the harmful psychological games that Facebook and others play to keep you engaged so they can keep showing you more and more ads.


Safari is unusable on iOS: no ad blocking.

Orion bring uBlock origin, this is game changing




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