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It’s not like Safari is blocking all ad blockers like Google Chrome did... its more of deprecating & removing APIs that can be abused to track users browsing hi
by pcr910303 7y ago
It’s not like Safari is blocking all ad blockers like Google Chrome did... its more of deprecating & removing APIs that can be abused to track users browsing history by disguising itself into a browser extension.
Safari provides an alternative API that allows content blocking, that IMHO is better considering that
* it doesn’t allow leaking browsing history
* it runs in native code (not js like alternative ad blockers) so much fast
In a way, Apple is doing this to protect user privacy.
- saagarjha 7y agoApple is doing pretty much exactly the same thing Google is.
- pcr910303 7y agoLast time I checked, Google Chrome doesn’t offer an alternative API that allows efficient ad blocking. In contrast, Apple has introduced & provided the API for a few years, and popularized the idea of mobile win ad blockers. I can’t see how Apple is doing ‘pretty much the same as Google’. Can you clarify?
- saagarjha 7y agoGoogle is adding essentially the same thing with Manifestv3 and has been raked over the coals for it.