I did something similar, where I played up until the bathroom scene, wrote it off as “Telltale’s TWD with a neat gimmick” and put it down until covid had me blasting through my backlog. By the time it was over, it was easily one of my favorites ever. The characters clicked in a way that made had me emotionally invested in a way I haven’t felt since I was a hormonal high school kid.

the links you click go through the native iOS browser, without any ad blocking

That’s the “that way” I meant.

I generally browse the fediverse in my default browser (or a progressive web app) and open links in the same browser. Browser has ad blocking. The network has DNS-level ad blocking. Opening websites like kotaku raw like that seems absolutely insane.

Sounds miserable. Why would anyone choose to browse the internet that way?

Are you not using an adblocker in 2025?

Calling someone a retard for believing something that’s obviously true is straight out of the flat-Earther playbook.