This doesn’t work on my iPhone 16
Edit: after upgrading the software, it works
uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#92I 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…
It is mind-boggling, how in this day and age search functions can still be soooo bad in so many places on the web and inside applications. At the very least a 100% substring match should be very visible in the result. If not at the top, then there should be sorting criteria, to make it appear at the top, so that one can sane-ify the search result, when it is not sane. A good example for bad search is the windows star…
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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#93I'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.
My experience has been that installing AdGuard on my iPhone made no noticeable difference. To be fair, I barely browse on my phone. Basically only news sites and Reddit/HN. But apart from HN I see ads on all of those pages.
So I am just a puzzled by your point of view :) May I ask which App you are using? I would love to be proven wrong and have an ad-free browsing experience in the future.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#94I'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.
Use a bookmarklet to sweep sticky elements for those situation. Not ideal, but works fine.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#95"This app is currently not available in your country or region."
:(
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#96This app is currently not available in your country or region.
Neither in France.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#97I 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…
It is mind-boggling, how in this day and age search functions can still be soooo bad in so many places on the web and inside applications. At the very least a 100% substring match should be very visible in the result. If not at the top, then there should be sorting criteria, to make it appear at the top, so that one can sane-ify the search result, when it is not sane. A good example for bad search is the windows star…
It’s not mind boggling at all. It’s controlled by one entity that is not optimizing for good search, but rather its own financial gain.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#98A friendly reminder that uBlock Origin Lite can't protect you from modern ad tracking. Consider using Firefox with the original version on desktop and support the EU pushing Apple to allow alternative browser engines on iOS.
More details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock_Origin_Li...
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole point of going iPhone is not to have to deal with these kinds of situations.
The whole point of using an iPhone is that you don't have to update it?
Choice and platform fragmentation in one neat bundle. I am almost surprised that Apple doesn't just force updates on everyone when it is possible just to maintain that additional bit of uniformity and conformity for its "think different" crowd.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#100I 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…
I just searched for uBlock. Top result is an ad for another ad blocker. Second result is an ad blocker called "Ublock", with "Origin" in its tags; a clear scam whose purpose is to leech off the reputation of uBlock Origin and trick people. Apple's App Store is chock full of scams like this. It's not just bad search, it's a failure to enforce any kind of anti scam policy (combined with seemingly intentionally terrible…
But god forbid you have the word Android somewhere in your app, because they will then reject your update.