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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by TheJoeMan »

KPGv2 wrote: post #192
TheJoeMan wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I watched an elderly mathematics professor manually type a full URL into the windows search box, complete with "https", and I thought to myself "surely that won't work" and lo and behold...

You mean he searched for a URL and received something that was an exact match as his sole result? Sounds like the search worked perfectly. What do you think should've happened? The search say "I know what you're searching for, but I refuse to help because your dumb ass should've typed this into a web browser address bar?" This isn't 1995. Computers have access to the Internet, and there's no reason your computer's se…

I didn’t mean to elicit hostilities, my comment is in the context of the parent comment where they are discussing displeasure with the web search results coming from the Windows search bar. As a more technically literate user, I would prefer for no web results except from my web browser, but I was sharing a corollary to that.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by shawnz »

lapcat wrote: post #61
shawnz wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> the blocking webRequest API (which Safari never supported) This is inaccurate. Safari (Mac) supported it until 2019, and indeed there was a version of uBlock Origin for Safari back then.

Interesting, thanks for the correction.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by BobaFloutist »

w0m wrote: post #191
remus wrote: post #188

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Not to stick up for the search in the app store, but I don't think it is necessarily that straightforward, particularly where there is money to be made by gaming the ranking.

if there's a system; people will go out of their way to game it if there's potentially $$$ involved.

See: companies naming themselves "Aardvark (plumbing, electrician, locksmith, moving) in the day of phone books.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by nozzlegear »

broeng wrote: post #46
Squarex wrote: post #14

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For privacy aware people it can be important that an open source and well trusted extension is available.

It's been possible for about a decade to use Firefox Focus as a Content Blocker for Safari. I assume it's open source, "well trusted" is of course subjective.

Firefox Focus doesn't exist on Mac, though.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by hundchenkatze »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #237
slowmotiony wrote: post #208

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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.

Except there's no easy way to verify that what you get from the store has been built, unmodified, from the public source - afaik.

(I still use AdGuard fwiw)

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by alephnerd »

jeffhuys wrote: post #233
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.

Do you have a significant number of tabs opened? I've noticed a similar issue and my hunch is it was due to "tab rot".

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by apozem »

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 installs, opening it is a simple message saying I need to enable it in Safari settings. Strange, but ok.

I’ve made several Safari extensions for iOS, and they all have to do this.

Apple provides no API for an app to enable its own Safari extension. It also has no public API on iOS to deeplink to the Settings page for enabling the extension. You just have to tell users where to go and hope they don’t get lost.

(There is an API on macOS to quickly open Safari extension settings. It’s nice! Maybe they’ll add it to iOS someday.)

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by dizhn »

zeta0134 wrote: post #266
dizhn wrote: post #123

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The search is pulling from a bunch of sources in a particular order and returning results as it finds them probably. I wouldn't expect it to be anything sinister.

Indeed, it's called Plasma Search, available in system settings. Providers can be enabled, disabled, and configured at will. I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to code your own and get it hooked up in there, if you were so inclined. Personally I just unchecked everything except "Applications" and I use it like a quick launcher. Works great for my purposes.

I use it exactly like that too. It's too jarring to get anything else in the results for me and while I can't imagine why anyone would include any other source, to each their own.

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Post by digikazi »

donohoe wrote: post #8
kovariantenkak wrote: post #5

From the permissions in Safari: > Web Page Contents and Browsing History - Can read and alter sensitive information on web pages, including passwords, phone numbers and credit cards, and see your browsing history on the current tab's web page when you use the extension. What does it mean for me to use the extension? Am I using it if it is installed?

Installation is the first step, then you must enable it. If you go to safari settings and enable it there, then you are using it.

Bizarrely when I do that it tells me “uBO Lite is not supported by this version of Safari”.

On an iPhone 13 with the latest version of iOS.

I’m very new to the Apple ecosystem so it could well be that it’s meant to work on a laptop/desktop rather than the mobile version.

I could of course be wrong: does anybody know better? Or is it a case of me being frazzled after work?

EDIT: some users have suggested upgrading to iOS 18.6 solves this problem. Doing it as we speak!

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by firefax »

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…

Does anyone have the canonical link and care to share?
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