• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    Tbf, you can a very cheap android phone for around $100 USD, the cheapest iPhone starts at around $400 (edit: Actually I got curious and looked it up, apparantly the iPhone SE is gone and the cheapest new iPhone right now seems to be the 16e which start at $600). Also, Apple developer account cost $99 per year, Google developer account cost $25 one time fee, so the cost is gonna trickle down to the user, sometimes you find free apps on google play and then you look at apple and it cost a few dollars, its most likely due to the recurring costs to maintain a developer account.

    Also, Apple doesn’t allow torrent clients, You can’t use firefox with ublock origin on iOS.

    (But then again, these advantages could also go away in a few years… 👀)

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        There is a “firefox” but its just a re-skinned safari basicly, because Apple has some weird requirement of using their “webkit” or whatever, and no extensions allowed on the “firefox”. I used an iPhone before (because I was a young adult and iPhones looked shiny) and I was so sad to find out I couldn’t use uBlock Origin on it. And then finding out torrent apps are non-existent just made me cry.

        Yes they do have “adblockers” like Brave or those Adguard thing on safari, but those are dogshit and they broke like half of the time, and many ads get through anyways, especially on youtube (where as uBlock Origin only break sites like 5% of the time).

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      Orion sorta lets you use Firefox addons. I use the built in adblocker it has tho.