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Safari ad blockers are not severely crippled.
by PaulRobinson 6y ago
Safari ad blockers are not severely crippled.
- saagarjha 6y agoThey do kind of suck, however. They’re not very dynamic and are capped at an arbitrary limit of 50,000 rules.
- PaulRobinson 6y agoAll software has "arbitrary" limits. Is 50,000 rules enough to provide adequate ad blocking? If not, it's a problem. If 50k rules is more than enough, it's not accurate to suggest that the limit is an issue we should care about.
- damnyou 6y agoThe only way to do adequate ad blocking is dynamically. Static lists are not sufficient.
- tpetry 6y agoThe most popular blocker named 1Blocker is adding multiple rule lists, one for each of it’s categories (ads, trackers, regional rules, ...) to circumvent this limit. Its not a real problem.
- sirn 6y agoI think the better way to put it is it is a real problem, but with a well known workaround. AFAIK, these slots needs to be pre-defined so you're still limited to number of lists that were defined at installation time. This limitation prevent the model with traditional adblocker where extension and block lists are independently maintained by different parties (e.g. uBlock Origin/ABP + EasyList) so you're stuck with relying on extension maintainer to update their list or download another blocker app when the blocker become unmaintained (where in traditional model you could just subscribe to another list)
- tchalla 6y agoTry Focus from Firefox
- izacus 6y agoHN had a different opinion when Chrome wanted to introduce same limitations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430