uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari • Hacker News Board

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by shawnz » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

frou_dh wrote: post #9

I've been puzzled reading previous discussions about Safari where people acted as if it doesn't have good ad-blocking, just because the brand name extension they're familiar with wasn't available. There has been very good ad-blocking available on Safari for a long time (both macOS and iOS) using for example AdGuard.

Ad blockers on Safari effectively have the same weaknesses as ad blockers on Chrome now have since the deprecation of the blocking webRequest API (which Safari never supported).

See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... for some examples of things you can't do without those APIs.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by whstl » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:52 AM UTC

tomalpha wrote: post #23

I just searched within the (edit: iOS App Store) App Store app for ublock origin lite “ublock origin lite” For the unquoted search, there are twelve different apps/items returned above it - you really have to scroll down to find it at number 13. Even for the quoted search, it’s returned in fourth place. More interestingly the second time I searched with quoted it’s in third place, and the third time of searching the…

Apple is really bad at search, and on purpose. Welp, money before quality!

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by comrade1234 » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:52 AM UTC

comrade1234 wrote: post #19

iOS 18.5 safari can't use it. I swear I was successfully using the beta. Guess I'll try upgrading to iOS 18.6.

Ok, updated and can be activated on iOS 18.6 safari.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by tomalpha » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:52 AM UTC

Meekro wrote: post #29

tomalpha wrote: post #23

I just searched within the (edit: iOS App Store) App Store app for ublock origin lite “ublock origin lite” For the unquoted search, there are twelve different apps/items returned above it - you really have to scroll down to find it at number 13. Even for the quoted search, it’s returned in fourth place. More interestingly the second time I searched with quoted it’s in third place, and the third time of searching the…

Working fine for me-- when I search under Mac Apps for "ublock origin lite" (no quotes), it appears in 1st place.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I too get the same for Mac apps, but for iOS apps still see the same competitor results returned first. For me, that's the same whether I use the App Store from my phone, or laptop.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by thijsvandien » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:55 AM UTC

rckt wrote: post #30

I'm a long-time user of Wipr. Does the job perfectly.

Generally it works well, but what's particularly annoying is that it hides cookie walls, resulting in non-functional websites until I disable content blockers, close the dialog and re-enable them. Not sure if uBlock does any better, though.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by v7engine » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:57 AM UTC

I don't know if it is working, because sometimes, I see Google Adsense ads on Wordle site.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by frou_dh » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:57 AM UTC

shawnz wrote: post #31

frou_dh wrote: post #9

I've been puzzled reading previous discussions about Safari where people acted as if it doesn't have good ad-blocking, just because the brand name extension they're familiar with wasn't available. There has been very good ad-blocking available on Safari for a long time (both macOS and iOS) using for example AdGuard.

Ad blockers on Safari effectively have the same weaknesses as ad blockers on Chrome now have since the deprecation of the blocking webRequest API (which Safari never supported). See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... for some examples of things you can't do without those APIs.

As I understand it, AdGuard uses (in addition to a browser extension) a system-level local network proxy so can do anything to requests and responses?

Confusingly, there are 3 offerings: "AdGuard for Mac", "AdGuard for iOS" and "AdGuard for Safari" and I think it's the first 2 that are the good stuff, even for Safari.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by forgotoldacc » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:58 AM UTC

I've been using Adguard for a couple years and have had no problems. I think I've only seen ads slip through a couple times. If there's anyone who's able to compare, is there any real difference between these ad blockers?

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by mouselett » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 9:59 AM UTC

uallo wrote: post #4

Non-Chinese version: https://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698

Thank you for the link. Can some moderator please update the link? Thanks in advance.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by ron_k » Tue, Aug 05, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC

thijsvandien wrote: post #35

rckt wrote: post #30

I'm a long-time user of Wipr. Does the job perfectly.

Generally it works well, but what's particularly annoying is that it hides cookie walls, resulting in non-functional websites until I disable content blockers, close the dialog and re-enable them. Not sure if uBlock does any better, though.

This is my only complaint. Most of the websites work fine, but others get stuck. I don’t know if Wipr 2 solved the issue.