Doesn’t iOS only use webkit based browsers? I would imagine the reason you can get ad blocking through brave is some kind of deal they have with google. Which probably means they’re just giving them all the data google would collect normally.

Firefox on iOS doesn’t have ad blocking because apple took support away in webkit. The only way brave could be doing it is by being white listed by the company serving the ad to you somehow.

Both Mac and iOS have issues with VPN usage too but that’s unrelated to webkit.

Corporations absolutely control the power what are you even talking about? The only time they listen to us is when it benefits them directly. Look at Reddit and Twitter right now, you would think the large user backlash would improve things but it doesn’t. We don’t live in a market controlled by you and I, the market it controlled by VC funding and what looks good on an earnings sheet.

People hated the headphone jack getting removed but that didn’t change anything. I very much did try to keep buying phones with headphone jacks and expandable storage but companies stopped offering them. Sure there are options available but they all have bigger issues for my use case than lacking I/O.

The EU is requiring user replaceable batteries in phones by 2027, lets take a guess as to who apposes it… is it A) the consumers or B) the phone companies? I’ll give you a minute.

And oh boy would you look at that, it’s the manufacturers who are fighting against it. So if the manufacturers are fighting regulators over this, do you think the free will of the market could achieve it more efficiently?

I completely agree with what you say here, the frustrating part is how much people use technology without wanting to understand it. I don’t know how to code and I’m not saying everyone needs to, we can leave it to the people who actually like doing it.

But it seems like people are intimidated by fairly simple instructions if it’s something even slightly unfamiliar. Given how distraught those same people would be if their tech stopped working I feel like a basic understanding would be a good thing to have. Especially when it’s something they’re using for leisure, like social media.

It’s like, the fact you should put pressure on a wound is generally good knowlege to have, even if you aren’t a doctor. But then again a non negligable percent of adults don’t understand how babies are conceived so maybe I’m being overly optimistic.