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Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

#31

... but still no adblocker for safari

Not sure what you mean, are you missing a specific ad blocker? There are some ad blockers for Safari, both on macOS and on iOS. 1Blocker, AdGuard, Wipr, are examples I know to work well. (Many are paid, though, or have paid “premium” tiers.) Edit: others in this thread also mention Ghostery, KaBlock.

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many websites implemented the banner because other websites are implementing them. There’s a lot of bandwagons out there.

The EU used the force and threat of law to force everyone to do it.

The EU used the force and threat of law to force everyone who already should have been doing it to do it.

A bunch of other people just jumped on the bandwagon.

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

#33

Your mileage may vary but the first 3 websites I opened after installing it: - https://twitter.com/ still shows cookie banner at the bottom - https://botland.com.pl still shows cookie banner at the bottom - https://www.17track.net started showing "You are seeing this message because ad or script blocking software is interfering with this page." at the bottom of the page and asked me to solve a captcha

I'd recommend you file an issue (or even better, a pull request) at https://github.com/oblador/hush/issues

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

#34

Is there any work being done to revert the requirements of cookie banners, age consent, etc? These are all utterly pointless and easy to bypass. While we're at it, get rid of the forced "piracy is harmful" ads on every media disc too. Pirates don't actually see these messages, they're stripped out in the final copy, so the actual legal customers are the only one suffering through it as they can't be skipped either wi…

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Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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1Blocker is great, although it is paid.

Yeah, 1Blocker running on Safari and NextDNS connection in the background means I never see ads these days.

Thanks for the NextDNS tip, it looks amazing. I was about to set up Pi-hole today but this looks better.

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

#36

Your mileage may vary but the first 3 websites I opened after installing it: - https://twitter.com/ still shows cookie banner at the bottom - https://botland.com.pl still shows cookie banner at the bottom - https://www.17track.net started showing "You are seeing this message because ad or script blocking software is interfering with this page." at the bottom of the page and asked me to solve a captcha

I'd recommend you file an issue (or even better, a pull request) at https://github.com/oblador/hush/issues

for every site you visit? yeah no thanks

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

#37
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many websites implemented the banner because other websites are implementing them. There’s a lot of bandwagons out there.

The EU used the force and threat of law to force everyone to do it.

Two options exist:

1) ask for consent for personal data you are taking 2) do not take personal data.

The latter is clearly preferable.

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

#38
I'm going to check Hush out - I hope it works as intended. I've been using Safari as my main browser for a while now, and it has been a little (very) painful since the update that broke uBlock origin. It seems a pi-hole isn't enough!

It would be great to browse the web without all the noise!

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd recommend you file an issue (or even better, a pull request) at https://github.com/oblador/hush/issues

for every site you visit? yeah no thanks

I think you’re setting unreasonable expectations. Ad blocking has years of work behind it, and it still isn’t an exact science. Cookie banners are even harder, because they usually only come in the form of an element that blends in.

Re: Hush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari

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... but still no adblocker for safari

Not sure what you mean, are you missing a specific ad blocker? There are some ad blockers for Safari, both on macOS and on iOS. 1Blocker, AdGuard, Wipr, are examples I know to work well. (Many are paid, though, or have paid “premium” tiers.) Edit: others in this thread also mention Ghostery, KaBlock.

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