Um... there are adblock lists for this. AdGuard's own does this well.
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New iOS App Blocks Those Annoying 'Open in App' Pop-Ups in Safari
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Hush is great but occasionally breaks websites that won't show content until you have clicked through the cookie banner. So just be aware occasionally you have to disable it to get through, but can re-enable once the cookie prefs are set.
That one collects data from you. The hush nag blocker won’t but it isn’t as configurable.
I was looking and didn’t notice a pihole list specific to this. Can you provide a link?
Uh yea….dunno about that. I’m going get this refunded
Now all we need is an extension that stops websites from automatically opening the App Store when you didn’t even select anything on it.
Wipr. Set and forget. Worth the few bucks. Hardly ever breaks anything, but blocks almost everything. Based on EasyLists largely.
My experience is that the websites are usually better maintained and more feature rich than the apps. As an example, the only thing on the bank’s app that is not available on the web is the ability to deposit checks. There are a great many other features on the web not available on the app. Many apps also only work well on phones and are not optimized for ipad.
Firefox Focus works great for me and it's free. You can use the extension to block ads ect. in Safari.
I use AdGuard Pro when I’m not at home with my pihole access. It isn’t quite as good but still pretty good.
It is basically the exaggeration for “This extension modifies how the website looks”. I have this same “warning” for other extensions.
Just fyi, this is the exact same warning text that is displayed for each and every extension that alters websites you visit in some way. It seems to currently be an all or nothing affair, a bit more granularity in iOS in this matter would be helpful.
Also, it seems to be possible to activate Banish under ‘content blockers’ (which do not have this kind of access) without activating the actual extension, although I haven’t tried yet if this has any effect on functionality…
Which adblock list should I activate to have this popup blocked? I'm using AdGuard as well.
I’m surprised Apple allows this extension. Probably will be blocked soon. 
I'd argue this is Apple want people to fear about safari extension or it is required to behave like that for its feature to work, as per their design. Either way, your choice.
Hmm all ad blockers have this description. No way they can do their job otherwise. Look at uBlock Origin's description on desktop (non Apple) browsers, it's exactly the same. And if you can't trust them, you can't trust anyone.
Hi, can you tell us if you can grant permission per website instead of granting it for all websites? I wouldn’t care if it had access to twitter or Reddit webpages. But obviously, allowing access to all websites without granular selection make it much more instructive, and a potential security risk.
For instance, on my ad blocker, I have only enabled the extra features for your tube, as I don’t mind the dev having access to YouTube.com while I browse. For all the other websites I rely on Apple’s content blocker API, which doesn’t allow the dev to have access to the websites I visit.
Wipr does not unless you enable the optional Extra which targets YouTube ads.
Any ideas on how to a/b test the extension vs content blocker? I suppose we could ask the dev! Might drop him a message.
There are content blockers that rely on Apple’s content blocker API, that way, the dev doesn’t have access to the data of your navigation and cannot gather or modify directly the contents of your navigation.
And if you want a more aggressive approach (for YouTube for instance) many adblock devs such as Giorgio Calderolla (Wipr) allow you to select on which websites you want to grant full access to the extension. In my case, only on YouTube.com
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The one I really want to see is a Safari extension to keep App Store webpage links from opening in the App Store app. Yes, occasionally that’s helpful - other times it’s really annoying. Like when I just want to grab the URL to put in a document, or when I want to see the page to see the price of the app (say, I want to tell a friend how much this neat app costs, but Safari “helpfully” redirects me into the App Store app, which no longer tells me the price but instead gives me a button to open the app - I JUST WANT TO SEE THE DAMN WEB PAGE, TYVM!
Especially galling when when you want to see the web page on a Mac and it redirects into the Mac’s App Store app, which proceeds to tell me the app is only available on iOS (yes, gee, I knew that already, thanks).
There used to be an extension for this, but Apple changed the way that extensions work 3 or 4 times, and the author gave up on updating the app.
Especially galling when when you want to see the web page on a Mac and it redirects into the Mac’s App Store app, which proceeds to tell me the app is only available on iOS (yes, gee, I knew that already, thanks).
There used to be an extension for this, but Apple changed the way that extensions work 3 or 4 times, and the author gave up on updating the app.
This is how all extensions work; the only way they can make any changes to the sites you visit is to read what's on them and apply alterations to them. It's their literal purpose. Apple's wording here is very severe, but they're just describing how all such extensions function.