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Until Apple fixes the mess they made with ad-blocking and allows full-fat ublock origin to work on Safari again, it could be 100x better than any other browser
by selectodude 5y ago
Until Apple fixes the mess they made with ad-blocking and allows full-fat ublock origin to work on Safari again, it could be 100x better than any other browser and it would still be worthless compared to Firefox.
Shame, because I really do like Safari.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoAre there any comparisons of where content blockers fail and ublock origin is better for a casual user?
- nathanasmith 5y agoSomebody correct me if I'm wrong but last time I checked I couldn't find any content blocker for MacOS Safari that would block pre-roll Youtube ads whereas uBlock Origin in Chrome, Firefox, etc. does not have this problem.
- olliej 5y ago1Blocker works for me and has good support
- ezfe 5y agoWipr blocks them for me
- smoldesu 5y agoRight, for $2 and no access to the source code.
- olliej 5y agoAh, so you mean you want a free solution, because why should the devs of an extension that you obviously value earn anything from their work?
- endisneigh 5y agoWell that’s why they’re adblocking to begin with - to prevent monetization
- _jal 5y agoSpeaking only for me, I'm OK with paying, but trusting browser extensions, as they currently exist, is hard.
- ruohola 5y agoDo you know how Safari content blockers are implemented? They by design cannot do much malicious stuff.
- smoldesu 5y agoI want a free solution because that's the standard in the space. I shouldn't have to pay money to make a browser with less features have parity with a better developed one.
- iknowstuff 5y agoSafari content blockers don’t get access to the website. They merely present a list of selectors to block, and Safari does the rest. So the lack of source code access is benign, by design.
- frankjr 5y agoContent blockers don't have access to websites, but they themselves need to be "hosted" within a native application, right? And that application can potentially do more than just provide a list of rules to Safari.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI use Wipr too, but it seems like a couple months ago, Google figured out how to get past it since I see shippable ads 50% or more of the time. I used to never see them.
- ezfe 5y agoIt comes and goes - the Wipr guy does make a lot of tweaks pretty frequently, if you pull up his twitter
- knolan 5y agoProbably the best use for a Touch Bar is scrubbing through Youtube ads.
- gilgoomesh 5y agoVinegar
- happybuy 5y agoI develop an ad blocker - Magic Lasso Adblock [1] for Safari that flawlessly and completely blocks all ads in YouTube. It works across iPhone, iPad and Mac. So it can be done and the experience works when implemented correctly. [1] https://www.magiclasso.co/ https://www.magiclasso.co/
- ezfe 5y agoI use Wipr and it doesn't seem to have any trouble keeping my viewing experience ad free, including on Youtube
- olliej 5y agoI use 1Blocker and have no issues with ads, so I'm unsure what you're after?
- freediver 5y agoThis is one of the main reasons we built Orion browser. Native app, with the same rendering engine and with native extensions support. https://browser.kagi.com https://browser.kagi.com
- kruxigt 5y ago
- daypay 5y agoAny invites that you could share without having to wait 3 weeks for the next round to go out?
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- tgv 5y agoTry Firefox on iOS. It’s webkit, but not bad.
- fouc 5y agoI do my ad blocking at the /etc/hosts level. Pihole is also good too.
- Angostura 5y agoDoes full-fat ublock origin work without leaking the sites you are browsing to its developers?