Ah, the never-ending quest to define platform features as anti-competitive in order to make Apple worse.
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#112Is there a mobile browser for iOS that supports uBlock Origin? On my Laptop, I get no YouTube ads. It seems uBlock Origin removes them. On my iPad, I get YouTube ads in an unbearable frequency. It seems there is no solution for this? How is the situation on Android?
Regarding YouTube ads on iPad: App called ‘Vinegar - Tube Cleaner’. Incredible. Best few bucks I’ve ever spent. It replaces the native YouTube player with the standard iOS video player which means you can also do system-wide picture-in-picture from the YouTube website. And I’ve not seen a YouTube ad in videos since I installed the extension.
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#113Will this set a precedent for car infotainment systems or even TV extra's? When is a device with a general purpose cpu something that can be upgraded or modified with other software and when isnt it?
We were considering asking for this, but we’re just unsure how important it was and whether it would place an undue burden on manufacturers for more simple devices.
Mobile devices are an obvious target for competition because they are just so ubiquitous and two companies basically control the market.
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#114Ah, the never-ending quest to define platform features as anti-competitive in order to make Apple worse.
It's not that Apple ships a browser engine that is the problem. It's that they don't allow you to publish apps that use a different browser engine.
Big difference.
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#115Netscape navigator and IE, or the EU decisions on Microsoft bundling Windows media player? is anything different with this?
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Hard disagree. The only thing bad here is Safari's engine. Okay, let me give you an example. One of many I have. I run a website. I have many gigabytes of audio files. I'd like to 1) not have to store multiple versions of the same files, and 2) I'd like to encode them using the most efficient codec available. This means I'd like to use Opus. Every browser supports it since *6 years* ago.... except Safari. Okay, they…
Opus isn't a Safari bug. Opus is only supported for WebRTC. At no point did Apple advertise Opus support anywhere else. Nor does Apple claim any support for the Ogg container format.
Safari on iOS also doesn't support Indeo 5 video in an AVI container, that's even older the Opus/Ogg! /s
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A Porsche wrapper around a VW Golf is not a Porsche.
You do have Porsche wrappers around shared Volkswagen platforms though. Such as the Porsche Cayenne and the Volkswagen Touareg, the Porsche Macan and the Audi Q5, or the Porsche Taycan and the Audi étron GT.
Right-it’s probably not the best analogy. It might be better to use the Ford engine analogy (Ford / Jaguar / Rover / BMW et al), where there are multiple brands / chassis using the same powertrain.
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Have you tried to use indexdb on Safari?
Apple accidentally opened access to that to the point where any website could read another website's data, that's when I discovered the existence of IndexedDB myself :)
Is that not just iframe and some javascript?
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#119For the foreseeable future the only companies that may foster alternatives to the Apple / Google duopoly are Chinese ones. And there is absolutely no way they will be allowed to gain foldhold in the west.
The Chinese phones telling their masters if you were searching for banned information outside of China wasn’t a great start…
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Hard disagree. The only thing bad here is Safari's engine. Okay, let me give you an example. One of many I have. I run a website. I have many gigabytes of audio files. I'd like to 1) not have to store multiple versions of the same files, and 2) I'd like to encode them using the most efficient codec available. This means I'd like to use Opus. Every browser supports it since *6 years* ago.... except Safari. Okay, they…
Nothing about that sounds like a client-side problem; it’s a server-side problem. If you’re optimizing for sound quality on a web-streaming platform, and you don’t wish to transcode on the fly, you will always end up with a platform-specific shim. A native app would still provide a better experience on ANY platform-ask TIDAL, Qobuz, et al.