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> the blocking webRequest API (which Safari never supported) This is inaccurate. Safari (Mac) supported it until 2019, and indeed there was a version of uBlock

by lapcat 1y ago

> the blocking webRequest API (which Safari never supported) This is inaccurate. Safari (Mac) supported it until 2019, and indeed there was a version of uBlock Origin for Safari back then.

shawnz 1y ago
Interesting, thanks for the correction.
saagarjha 1y ago
I don't think uBlock Origin ever supported Safari?
- lapcat 1y ago
  https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158 https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
  - saagarjha 1y ago
    Ah, unofficial fork
    - lapcat 1y ago
      It was a fork. I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "unofficial". Gorhill said at the time that he didn't have time to maintain a Safari version, but he was aware of the fork, which mostly shared code with upstream, and seemingly endorsed the fork. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-Safari-and-Canary-support https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-Safari-and-Cana...