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uBlock is not the only ad blocker, and Safari supports many alternatives.

• roboyoshi 6y ago
  unfortunately ublock is the only one I trust right now. What alternative would you recommend that is fully open source and trustable?
  • ratww 6y ago
    Firefox Focus for iOS seems to be open source, AdGuard and Ka-Block for macOS also seem to be, there might be more. About "trusting": Safari content blocking extensions don't access your page, they only tell the browser which elements to block and Safari handles it. Some commercial extensions have a "control panel" that has access to pages, but you can just not enable them (it's opt-in AFAIK) [1] [1] https://i.imgur.com/jH8DFc4.png https://i.imgur.com/jH8DFc4.png
  • least 6y ago
    There's a thread regarding this on github linked from gorhill's repo: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158 https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158 Also Adguard for Safari is GPL v3. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari
  • hombre_fatal 6y ago
    You don't need to trust Safari content blockers because they can't access anything, they can just create static blocker rules. That's one of the key points of the system.
• newscracker 6y ago
  Safari supports content blockers, which are basically lists of content to block. AFAIK, there's also a limit (50K, IIRC?) to the number of rules that can be bundled within one extension. With the popular lists used with an extension like uBlock Origin, 50K is quite a small number. So multiple extensions would be required to get close to uBlock Origin, even if we dismiss element blocking rules and other features that uBlock Origin offers.