[danudey]

I recently started using Artifact on iOS as a news aggregator, and... wow. It uses a standard customized WebView and not a SafariViewController or whatever, meaning that it doesn't support any of the system-wide content blockers that I'm used to.

It's truly amazing that websites are so insanely difficult to just... read, these days. Ads that pop up covering the screen, videos (irrelevant to the article) which I scroll past, and which then suddenly decide to pin themselves to cover the top 1/3 of the screen and autoplay, along with ads covering the bottom 1/4 of the screen, while cookie reminders pop up and the page keeps jumping around because ads take so long to load... It's truly astonishing how bad of an experience I was missing out on.

Artifact is a pretty nice app, all in all, but the browsing experience without content blockers is so terrible that I just can't bring myself to use it anymore.