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Wake me up when Apple has started helping foster a community of developers for Safari plugins. Chrome is useful because it's so extendable.

amartya916 9y ago
I am sorry to say that you are ignoring the importance of privacy, and somewhat flippantly making the case for extensibility over privacy. Safari's (and Apple's) commitment to privacy is to be commended and we should try not to lose sight of it because of our personal preferences.
- xbmcuser 9y ago
  Apple sells default placement to search engines like Google and Bing. If it it really cared about privacy 1. It would not sell it's customers to Google or Bing as search placement 2. It would put duckduckgo or similar as default.
  - amartya916 9y ago
    This is a fair critique. I wish they didn't sell the search placement in the first place.
  - jolux 9y ago
    Once they have intelligent tracking protection enabled though it won't matter what search engine you use, because it will prevent tracking on all of them. Just including DuckDuckGo in the defaults is a huge step forward. I also wouldn't be surprised if it was defaulted if Google keeps trying to circumvent adblocking measures.
  - valuearb 9y ago
    The product manager who picked Google likely did so because of user preference.
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pducks32 9y ago
Oh come on. That is such a completely different issue. There's a serious problem if you can only look at something as a whole and not commend certain aspects of something.
- valuearb 9y ago
  To a person on a vendetta every act is criminal.
threeseed 9y ago
Apple has extensions and they have a developer program: https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/ https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/ The reason developers aren't all that interested is because these extensions are Mac only not because Apple isn't interested in having them.
mwfunk 9y ago
What the heck does that have to do with privacy? You make it sound like you think people are talking about which browser is better overall.

amartya916 9y ago

I am sorry to say that you are ignoring the importance of privacy, and somewhat flippantly making the case for extensibility over privacy. Safari's (and Apple's) commitment to privacy is to be commended and we should try not to lose sight of it because of our personal preferences.

xbmcuser 9y ago
Apple sells default placement to search engines like Google and Bing. If it it really cared about privacy 1. It would not sell it's customers to Google or Bing as search placement 2. It would put duckduckgo or similar as default.
- amartya916 9y ago
  This is a fair critique. I wish they didn't sell the search placement in the first place.
- jolux 9y ago
  Once they have intelligent tracking protection enabled though it won't matter what search engine you use, because it will prevent tracking on all of them. Just including DuckDuckGo in the defaults is a huge step forward. I also wouldn't be surprised if it was defaulted if Google keeps trying to circumvent adblocking measures.
- valuearb 9y ago
  The product manager who picked Google likely did so because of user preference.

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pducks32 9y ago

Oh come on. That is such a completely different issue. There's a serious problem if you can only look at something as a whole and not commend certain aspects of something.

valuearb 9y ago
To a person on a vendetta every act is criminal.

threeseed 9y ago

Apple has extensions and they have a developer program: https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/ https://developer.apple.com/safari/extensions/ The reason developers aren't all that interested is because these extensions are Mac only not because Apple isn't interested in having them.

mwfunk 9y ago

What the heck does that have to do with privacy? You make it sound like you think people are talking about which browser is better overall.