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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by ymolodtsov »

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…

This doesn't really make Apple look better, but a huge part of it is surely how recent the Ublock Origin app for iOS is. New apps take time to propagate and become good responses. Which makes sense, you wouldn't want someone else to be able to instantly cover Ublock Origin itself with a copycat app (not that it doesn't happen anyway).

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by not_kurt_godel »

Kaytaro wrote: post #215
lhamil64 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The search in Google Messages on Android is completely useless too. It seems like it only searches within the past few days or something, if I try searching for something from a while back it never finds it. And they removed the feature to quickly scroll back to a date in the past, so the only way to dig up old texts is to manually scroll back in a conversation and hope you find it. It's absolutely ridiculous that th…

That's funny because iMessage search works quite well if you can find it buried in the interface. I have a feeling Apple themselves forgot it exists and hasn't gotten around to 'modernizing' it with AI yet.

> I have a feeling Apple themselves forgot it exists and hasn't gotten around to 'modernizing' it with AI yet.

tfw you're a big tech engineer/PM who does the right thing for your users but get blamed anyway

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by jeffhuys »

freehorse wrote: post #76

If anybody is interested, the original (not lite) firefox-version of uBlock Origin works just well in Orion (webkit based browser by kagi) in both iPhone and Mac. It is great to have it for safari though anyway as safari is the default browser in these platforms.

I love, LOVE Orion. Use it both on iPhone and Mac. However, lately, it's becoming more and more buggy and sluggish. Writing this in Orion though - just have to quit it a few times a day to battle the RAM consumption and sluggishness. So yeah, like the other person says: DEFINETELY still beta. And yes, I report the issues.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by mock-possum »

bspammer wrote: post #54
MortyWaves wrote: post #44

So I tapped the link on my iPhone and was taken to the App Store. The download button is available. Great! Finally I can block ads in mobile too. It installs, opening it is a simple message saying I need to enable it in Safari settings. Strange, but ok. I go to Settings -> Safari -> Extensions -> uBlock Origin Lite. > “uBO Lite” is not available for this version of Safari. This feels like a series of failures, why is…

It seems to require iOS 18.6, it’s working for me after updating.

Which apparently my iPhone SE doesn’t qualify for.

Every time this happens, I tell myself, “maybe it’s time to try and android phone”

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by LeoPanthera »

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...

I believe if you do that, the filter lists don't auto-update. That's the reason for the menu bar app.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by jodrellblank »

bsenftner wrote: post #140
vehemenz wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that people like us use Homebrew (and tell our families to), so there’s little incentive to complain loudly about this issue. Browser extensions and the occasional one-off app are the only reasons to go there.

Why do people think a browser extension is safe to use?

Why do people think a browser is safe to use? Why do people think any app is safe to use? Why do people think a website is safe to use? Why do people think an OS is safe to use? Why do people think a driver is safe to use? Why do people think a firmware is safe to use? Why do people think a hardware device is safe to use? Why do people think the chips inside are safe to use? Why do people think an ISP is safe to use?

If you have a point to make about it being particularly unsafe or different from any other internet/software trust, make that point. Otherwise you know well enough that there isn't any other option but trust, and people generally trust stuff until given a good reason not to.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by LeoPanthera »

slowmotiony wrote: post #208
forgotoldacc wrote: post #38

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?

I cancelled my Adguard subscription when I found out the founder and team are russian. That's big enough of a difference for me.

Used to be Russian. The company moved to Cyprus.

Most of their software (including AdGuard for Safari and AdGuard Home) is open source, so there's little chance of anything nefarious happening.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by hylaride »

kergonath wrote: post #143
mathgeek wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which I find really sad because at one point OSX had search quality that was really satisfying. That was maybe twenty years ago for me.

Spotlight was a revelation in Tiger. I don’t know exactly when it degraded but it’s a damn shame how annoying it’s become.

MacOS to me started to regress ~2012. I can’t remember what specific release it was, but one major MacOS release around then no longer remembered my MacBook’s external monitor layouts between work and home anymore and it was always “random”.

Spotlight, AirTunes/Airplay, iTunes, etc all also just slowly degraded. It’s like Steve Jobs was personally doing all QA and it just stopped when he died. I remember iTunes genius being SO GOOD that it cost me a fortune in song purchases, but now that apple just gets my monthly music payment, discovering new music is hard again.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by LeoPanthera »

operator-name wrote: post #57

Just tested it out on iOS. It’s scored 94% against Adguard’s 79% on this test page: https://adblock.turtlecute.org/

I'm using AdGuard with Mac Safari and I get 96%. Perhaps this is a configuration issue. But if that site doesn't test for false positives, which it doesn't seem to, I'd say the result is pretty meaningless.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by [deleted] »

al_borland wrote: post #120
forgotoldacc wrote: post #38

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?

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.

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