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Because Apple doing this transition in a much better way. First they introduce some better system (for ex: content blockers), waiting for it to be successful fr

• Nextgrid 7y ago
  Content blockers are inferior to extensions such as uBlock Origin.
  • kemayo 7y ago
    It's complicated? They have advantages and disadvantages over extensions. For most people who just installed an adblocker and never touched its settings, I bet they're practically equivalent. Advantages: privacy, efficiency Disadvantages: lack of flexibility, some things they just can't do
    • pythux 7y ago
      If you have some source about the efficiency advantage, could you please share? I only ever read that hypothetically it could be more efficient but never stumbled upon actual measurements/benchmarks. Also, extension adblockers are already so efficient that I would doubt there is a perceptible difference.
• creato 7y ago
  "The bottom line is that there's no way to install a classic Safari ad blocker starting this week, and that Apple is expected to remove or disable old Safari legacy extensions from users' browsers sometime in the future, for good." How is that different from what chrome is doing? There's a deprecation plan, it doesn't appear to be significantly shorter in time scale than what apple did.