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95% probably isn’t good enough. 1blocker is fairly awful I find and rather expensive because you’re a captive audience that doesn’t have access to working uBlo

by m0xte 6y ago

95% probably isn’t good enough. 1blocker is fairly awful I find and rather expensive because you’re a captive audience that doesn’t have access to working uBlock. This situation is one of several reasons I recently dumped macOS and went back to windows and am using edge and doing all my unixy stuff in VMs.

hombre_fatal 6y ago
95% is good enough to the vast majority of people. To get 100%, you use NoScript or turn Javascript off. Not many HNers even go that far. You don't have to use 1blocker, it's just an example of a well-crafted solution that has made it so I haven't seen an ad since I started using it. There are free solutions. The point is that you need to temper "ugh $thing is a turd!" when you're talking about fringe expectations, else you're completely disconnected from the conversation everyone else is having. You could call uBlock Origin a "turd" for its privacy violation of having access to every website you visit and request you make, but that's not a good way to have that conversation, either. Sounds like there was more to your decision than this situation though. Chrome + uBlock work fine on macOS.
- _qulr 6y ago
  > The point is that you need to temper "ugh $thing is a turd!" when you're talking about fringe expectations I wouldn't call it a fringe expectation. uBlock Origin in safariextz format was quite popular for Safari, until Safari 13 removed all support for it. As a result, many users were forced to move from something that worked very well for them to something that didn't work as well. Nobody likes to be forced to adopt something worse. Imposing the "power user" vs. "normal user" dichotomy here is not an accurate story of the history of Safari extensions.
- gabrielsroka 6y ago
  I run Brave on Android with scripts blocked. It's such a joy. It blocks most ads and even allows allows you to read articles that otherwise would require payment. I'm not exactly saying it bypasses paywalls, though. If I browse the same sites on Chrome for Windows my CPU goes to 100%. It's awful.
ballenf 6y ago
I don't understand why you'd dump an OS over limitations of its default browser. Edge even has a MacOS version if that's your browser of choice.
- m0xte 6y ago
  More than that. General direction was negative. They’re removing kernel extensions (bye bye corp vpn), terrible historical direction on browser extensions, bugs galore, crazy expensive hardware. I’m done.

by m0xte 6y ago

hombre_fatal 6y ago

95% is good enough to the vast majority of people. To get 100%, you use NoScript or turn Javascript off. Not many HNers even go that far. You don't have to use 1blocker, it's just an example of a well-crafted solution that has made it so I haven't seen an ad since I started using it. There are free solutions. The point is that you need to temper "ugh $thing is a turd!" when you're talking about fringe expectations, else you're completely disconnected from the conversation everyone else is having. You could call uBlock Origin a "turd" for its privacy violation of having access to every website you visit and request you make, but that's not a good way to have that conversation, either. Sounds like there was more to your decision than this situation though. Chrome + uBlock work fine on macOS.

_qulr 6y ago
> The point is that you need to temper "ugh $thing is a turd!" when you're talking about fringe expectations I wouldn't call it a fringe expectation. uBlock Origin in safariextz format was quite popular for Safari, until Safari 13 removed all support for it. As a result, many users were forced to move from something that worked very well for them to something that didn't work as well. Nobody likes to be forced to adopt something worse. Imposing the "power user" vs. "normal user" dichotomy here is not an accurate story of the history of Safari extensions.
gabrielsroka 6y ago
I run Brave on Android with scripts blocked. It's such a joy. It blocks most ads and even allows allows you to read articles that otherwise would require payment. I'm not exactly saying it bypasses paywalls, though. If I browse the same sites on Chrome for Windows my CPU goes to 100%. It's awful.

ballenf 6y ago

I don't understand why you'd dump an OS over limitations of its default browser. Edge even has a MacOS version if that's your browser of choice.

m0xte 6y ago
More than that. General direction was negative. They’re removing kernel extensions (bye bye corp vpn), terrible historical direction on browser extensions, bugs galore, crazy expensive hardware. I’m done.