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Safari's market share definitely isn't as big, that's a good point. However, it's got 100% market share on iPhones (Apple forbid other browser engines from running on iOS), so there's a lot of people that have no choice.
Really? Like you cannot use Firefox or chrome on IOS?
You can use the WebKit (Safari’s engine) wrappers made by Firefox and Chrome - but can’t use truly independent browsers
There's Firefox on iOS, but it's practically a wrapper around Safari. You get your bookmark synchronization, but everything under the hood runs on WebKit.
I have Firefox, Brave and DuckDuckGo on iOS, just no extensions, if you want an external AdBlocker you have to download an app that works at system level