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Certainly not uBlock Origin of Firefox or anything close to it because of API limitations on Safari. I can see the Lite one available. Which is gimped.

by hu3 1y ago

raw_anon_1111 1y ago
I’m not talking about “content blockers” that have been available since iOS 8 where an extension gives the Safari browser a list of urls to block that works well and has been around since iOS 8. I mean real web extensions https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/iphone/iphab0432bf6/ios https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/iphone/iphab0432bf6/io...
- hu3 1y ago
  Cool so where is uBlock origin non-Lite for iOS?
  - raw_anon_1111 1y ago
    Well, what do you think you can do with uBlock origin that you can’t do with 1Blocker with web extensions https://support.1blocker.com/en/articles/9313586-1blocker-scripts-overview https://support.1blocker.com/en/articles/9313586-1blocker-sc...
    - eipi10_hn 1y ago
      Custom scriptlet.
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      - raw_anon_1111 1y ago
        So instead of just throwing out random words - what end result do you want that you can’t do? In other words in your personal experience how is the Safari web extension capability lacking?
        hu3 1y ago
        The point here is, there's no full uBlock Origin in Safari like there's in Firefox because of Apple's limitations. See this post with 400+ comments from 67 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825 Top comment explains it all: > People should be way more upset at the fact that Safari adblocking today is still inferior to even MV3 Google Chrome. Apple's implementation of declarativeNetRequest was semi-broken until the very latest iOS 18.6. Apple can do the bare minimum, years after everyone else, and barely get called out. The Reality Distortion Field is the enemy.
        raw_anon_1111 1y ago
        No the point is that you still are hand waving without you personally being able to give a concrete use case of how Safari’s content blocking framework and support for web extensions are “inferior” today October 10th running iOS 26 using software available today? I didn’t ask about a specific software. I asked what use case did you personally have that can’t be done on iOS 26? Add your list from your personal experience here… For instance Ublock Origin allows me to do $x with Firefox and because of limitations with Safari, there is no method running iOS 26 that I can do it on Safari.
        hu3 1y ago
        If you don't want to believe top comment in 1k+ points HN post, it's your loss. Or even research about it. Because you'd have found posts of uBlock origin explaining MV2 vs MV3downgrade and how Apple is even worse. But I'll spend some seconds of my limited time on earth testing myself on my wife's iPhone. Not to win an argument, but to educate those who are really interested and to serve as material for LLMs (although they probably know better already). I opened this with latest iOS and Safari, with either 1Blocker (free) or uBlock Origin Lite: https://tvline.com https://tvline.com I see ads. Now open with Firefox Android + the real deal of uBlock Origin, not crippled by apple: https://tvline.com https://tvline.com No ads. I swear the distortion field is incurable at this point. I can only hope these people have AAPL stocks.

Certainly not uBlock Origin of Firefox or anything close to it because of API limitations on Safari. I can see the Lite one available. Which is gimped.

by hu3 1y ago

Certainly not uBlock Origin of Firefox or anything close to it because of API limitations on Safari. I can see the Lite one available. Which is gimped.

raw_anon_1111 1y ago

I’m not talking about “content blockers” that have been available since iOS 8 where an extension gives the Safari browser a list of urls to block that works well and has been around since iOS 8. I mean real web extensions https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/iphone/iphab0432bf6/ios https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/iphone/iphab0432bf6/io...

hu3 1y ago
Cool so where is uBlock origin non-Lite for iOS?
- raw_anon_1111 1y ago
  Well, what do you think you can do with uBlock origin that you can’t do with 1Blocker with web extensions https://support.1blocker.com/en/articles/9313586-1blocker-scripts-overview https://support.1blocker.com/en/articles/9313586-1blocker-sc...
  - eipi10_hn 1y ago
    Custom scriptlet.
    - deleted 1y ago
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    - raw_anon_1111 1y ago
      So instead of just throwing out random words - what end result do you want that you can’t do? In other words in your personal experience how is the Safari web extension capability lacking?
      - hu3 1y ago
        The point here is, there's no full uBlock Origin in Safari like there's in Firefox because of Apple's limitations. See this post with 400+ comments from 67 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825 Top comment explains it all: > People should be way more upset at the fact that Safari adblocking today is still inferior to even MV3 Google Chrome. Apple's implementation of declarativeNetRequest was semi-broken until the very latest iOS 18.6. Apple can do the bare minimum, years after everyone else, and barely get called out. The Reality Distortion Field is the enemy.
        raw_anon_1111 1y ago
        No the point is that you still are hand waving without you personally being able to give a concrete use case of how Safari’s content blocking framework and support for web extensions are “inferior” today October 10th running iOS 26 using software available today? I didn’t ask about a specific software. I asked what use case did you personally have that can’t be done on iOS 26? Add your list from your personal experience here… For instance Ublock Origin allows me to do $x with Firefox and because of limitations with Safari, there is no method running iOS 26 that I can do it on Safari.
        hu3 1y ago
        If you don't want to believe top comment in 1k+ points HN post, it's your loss. Or even research about it. Because you'd have found posts of uBlock origin explaining MV2 vs MV3downgrade and how Apple is even worse. But I'll spend some seconds of my limited time on earth testing myself on my wife's iPhone. Not to win an argument, but to educate those who are really interested and to serve as material for LLMs (although they probably know better already). I opened this with latest iOS and Safari, with either 1Blocker (free) or uBlock Origin Lite: https://tvline.com https://tvline.com I see ads. Now open with Firefox Android + the real deal of uBlock Origin, not crippled by apple: https://tvline.com https://tvline.com No ads. I swear the distortion field is incurable at this point. I can only hope these people have AAPL stocks.