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does F Focus Safari enabled affect icloud relay, and the number of trackers listed in Safari ( currently 4 for the last 30 days

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F Focus enabled on Safari. Any effect on icloud relay. Advanced data protection on Safari not enabled yet as phone(SE 3rd generation able but older Ipad not. Safari barely shows trackers (4 in the last 30 days. Only in the mid 100-200 prior to that. Total contrast to the thousands listed on FFocus if used as an stand alone browser from the app. if Firefox normal (app also downloaded)is used as default browser instead of Safari is icloud relay, and advanced data protection of Safari not avaliable while using Firefox. Synchronisation between devices isnt a concern nor multiple tab management for me. Thanks for your help

F Focus enabled on Safari. Any effect on icloud relay. Advanced data protection on Safari not enabled yet as phone(SE 3rd generation able but older Ipad not. Safari barely shows trackers (4 in the last 30 days. Only in the mid 100-200 prior to that. Total contrast to the thousands listed on FFocus if used as an stand alone browser from the app. if Firefox normal (app also downloaded)is used as default browser instead of Safari is icloud relay, and advanced data protection of Safari not avaliable while using Firefox. Synchronisation between devices isnt a concern nor multiple tab management for me. Thanks for your help

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And you're concerned about the numbers?

  1. Safari app reports the numbers blocked by its own functionality.
  2. Focus app reports the numbers blocked by it (and potentially also those blocked in other apps via extension — not sure about this data access between contexts on the iOS level though).
  3. Focus extensions that filter out content before Safari gets to it make Safari unaware about the number removed before it touched the documents. So effectively Safari only reports its own numbers, not any extensions' matches.

That seems to align with the numbers you posted (i.e. these are expected; you feel that some are incorrect?)

As for iCloud+ Private Relay, it only works in the system browser and is not available to alternative browsers on iOS. Its functionality does not affect the content filters, and vice versa; it runs at a different layer/timing — these features don't need to know about each other per se.

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Thank you for your advice. Much appreciated.

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