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> Safari's track record on privacy technologies is longer and better than everyone Uhh... Mozilla Firefox anybody? If Apple cares about privacy so much then wh
by farisjarrah 7y ago
> Safari's track record on privacy technologies is longer and better than everyone
Uhh... Mozilla Firefox anybody? If Apple cares about privacy so much then why don't they allow ad blockers on safari? I mean, even the Brave browser on iOS is better then Safari at blocking trackers and advertisements. Firefox also tells me how many trackers they have blocked and also give me the option to completely opt out of any telemetry data collection.
- rgovostes 7y agoThere is a content blocker API that has been available for a few years on both macOS and iOS, and there are third-party ad blockers that use it. 1Blocker is a popular one. The design is more performant than holding each load up on a traditional browser extension's decision, and does not permit the content blocker to track your browsing history and then upload it somewhere. It also conveniently allows Apple to get away with not providing a more flexible browser extension API while supporting the most common use case. https://webkit.org/blog/3476/content-blockers-first-look/ https://webkit.org/blog/3476/content-blockers-first-look/
- scarface74 7y agoApple has had a content blocking framework on iOS for years that not only works with Safari, but also works with embedded web views that use the SafariViewController.
- zepto 7y agoThey do.
- briandear 7y ago> why don't they allow ad blockers on safari? They do. I am running Crystal right now on mobile Safari. I also have ad blockers on desktop Safari as well.
- diffeomorphism 7y agoSafari has its problems: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158 https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158 Though you can get some ad blockers which do less.