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by AbuAssar 2293 days ago
restricting all browsers to use safari is the single killer feature that made me stick with ios.

If I blacklisted a website in control center it is respected in all browsers even in private mode.

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> restricting all browsers to use safari is the single killer feature

"killer" is right, "feature" is not. It's very anti-competitive and for those who don't want to use Safari it means iOS is just not an option.

> If I blacklisted a website in control center it is respected in all browsers even in private mode.

This is useful if you're using multiple browsers, but why bother if they're all Safari?

Requiring all third party browsers to honor those settings is something I could see Apple doing.
Apple could simply, you know, provide an API so browsers could query this option and do something useful instead of being anti competitive.