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Well, I have the same exact experience and frankly, it is not what I intend to repeat again. At least developers can do that. But most of the people who mainta
by ameshkov 5y ago
Well, I have the same exact experience and frankly, it is not what I intend to repeat again.
At least developers can do that. But most of the people who maintain filter lists are not developers and cannot afford enjoying compiling WebKit for the sake of finding what exact rule has blocked this or hidden that.
- StavrosK 5y agoHonest question: Why not just drop support for Safari? If Apple wants to make it hard to write content blockers, they can do without content blockers, and the users can see ads and eventually switch to a browser that doesn't show them ads.
- ameshkov 5y agoI do honestly believe they want to make content blockers good. Maybe the problem is that we don't communicate our pains good enough, maybe it's that they don't hear us sometimes, but I think that we have the common goal and this post will help them understand us better.
- StavrosK 5y agoI see, thank you. Hopefully it's just about not enough extension writer feedback, fingers crossed it'll get addressed!
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoThe browser they switch to is more likely than not to be Chrome, furthering Google's control of the web.