Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

apps.apple.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

171–180 of 464 posts

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

#171

Post by danaris »

ffsm8 wrote: post #132
prmoustache wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the azure win11 desktop I am using professionally (only windows I use) a large fraction of the time you can't even search anything because the windows menu just freeze.

Same for me, But OSX seems to have a similar issue at least on my MacBook Pro M1. I occasionally get the multicolor disk spinner which locks all UI interactions for a few seconds (10-30s) until it unfreezes and works as before again... Haven't been able to figure out the exact cause for it, feels very random.

I know that occasionally, the Spotlight index can get corrupted, and you have to manually delete it and let it regenerate. If you search for that with your current OS version, you should be able to find some decent instructions for it.

(My guess is that the Windows issue is something similar? but I have no experience with it, so don't know if it can be fixed in a similar way)

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

#173

Post by thimabi »

Citizen8396 wrote: post #159
al_borland wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AdGuard always bothered me. On macOS it sits in the menubar and has about a half dozen extensions that load into Safari. It felt like a bloated sprawling mess. I just installed uBOL and it's a single extension that sits in Safari. It feel much more clean and unobtrusive.

You can disable the menu bar icon in settings...

That’s in fact one of the gripes I have with certain MacOS software. It would be far better if menu bar icons were opt-in rather than opt-out. The average non-technical user eventually ends up having tons of these icons in the menu bar.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

#175

Post by sneak »

mort96 wrote: post #73
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…

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…

Apple’s contempt for its customers is palpable these days.

It breaks my heart to see how far they’ve fallen.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

#176

Post by kstrauser »

carlosjobim wrote: post #94
thijsvandien wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Use Safari’s own built-in “Hide Distracting Items”. It’s also pretty good at hiding the few remaining “disable your ad blocker to continue” popups Wipr doesn’t yet catch.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

#177

Post by SirMaster »

prrar wrote: post #148
mbirth wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wipr 2. One time payment for macOS and mobile. And it even blocks ads on YouTube (when watched via Safari).

One time until Wipr 3, coming from a Wipr 1/2 user, just to be clear.

Why would you need to upgrade to wipr 3 if wipr 2 does what you want and need?

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

#178

Post by Eggpants »

ygritte wrote: post #122
zelphirkalt wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

That's what you get for letting megacorps get away with monopolistic and anti-competitive behavior.

cool story bruh

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

#179

Post by ambicapter »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #83
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…

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…

Ok, this is too good. When I clicked on the App Store link, it opened the App Store and a "What's New" dialog popped up and the only thing highlighted was "Improved Search".

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

#180

Post by yapyap »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #83
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…

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, it’s on purpose
Post reply on HN