What's the advantage of a macOS app over a browser extension? (currently I use the latter)
uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
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Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
#162Scrolling through the comments reading about all the adblockers that folks recommend makes my head spin. Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser? Looking through the app store I see so many that are clearly trying to impersonate the well known ones by using similar names. It sounds like uBlock Origin Lite is trusted by many, but watch out for Ublock and 1Block, which are also top App Store results. Going off memory, the the chrome store is even worse. The whole situation is extremely sketchy. This is not even to mention supply chain attacks which could hijack even honest projects.
Personally I’ve settled on blocking at the DNS level with unbound and a blocklist. It’s not perfect but it limits the blast radius.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
#163Scrolling through the comments reading about all the adblockers that folks recommend makes my head spin. Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser? Looking through the app store I see so many that are clearly trying to impersonate the well known ones by using similar names. It sounds like uBlock Origin Lite is trusted by many, but watch out for Ublock and 1Block, which are also top App…
>Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser?
Content blockers on iOS don't have "full access". Most adblocking apps provide both a content blocker and an extension, the latter of which is used to work around stuff that content blockers can't block, or bugs that result as of blocking scripts from loading, but they're not needed. You can get 95% of the functionality by just using content blockers.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
#164Scrolling through the comments reading about all the adblockers that folks recommend makes my head spin. Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser? Looking through the app store I see so many that are clearly trying to impersonate the well known ones by using similar names. It sounds like uBlock Origin Lite is trusted by many, but watch out for Ublock and 1Block, which are also top App…
>Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser? Content blockers on iOS don't have "full access". Most adblocking apps provide both a content blocker and an extension, the latter of which is used to work around stuff that content blockers can't block, or bugs that result as of blocking scripts from loading, but they're not needed. You can get 95% of the functionality by just using content…
I guess my head is still spinning.
I took a second look at ad blockers on the app store, and many report that they collect various bits of data. Are you saying that there's a special content blocker component to all of these that can't collect data because they're isolated by iOS? I'm not sure how anyone who isn't a iOS developer is supposed to navigate this. To uBlock's credit, their App Store page reports that they collect no data, but is this enforced by iOS? Or just a checkbox that the developer clicked?
Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine asking the browser on my hardware to do things I don’t want it to do, and acting shocked when I tell it not to.
Imagine there's a business that can't really enforce whether you walk out without providing compensation. You realize you have the home court advantage on enforcement and guess what, you don't want to pay. It's your browser/wallet and that's your prerogative. But what does that mean about how tempting their goods are? Do we have prerogative to these goods? Should we live in a world where we only permit business model…
Of course there is a means to enforce payment, paywalls. Ads are a particular model for monetization, it does not mean it is the only one. How about when you want to see a movie, nobody will let you in unless you have bought a ticket. Now of course theaters know that you have paid, but they still say, hey, here are 30 minutes of ads to go with your movie, but then it is then fair for us to show up late.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45177601
My reply was about not willing to pay for an ad blocker.
The state of ads on the web is abysmal, but I'm not beyond paying someone for the work they do to create, test and update the extension that gets rid of them
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Imagine asking the browser on my hardware to do things I don’t want it to do, and acting shocked when I tell it not to.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
#168The lack of proper adblocker on iOS is what convinced me to use the Brave browser instead of Firefox or Safari. An adblocker is included by default. And as a bonus : possibility to keep music videos playing while changing app. (A parameter has to be switched for that though)
I've been using Orion for the same reason. It supports chrome/firefox extensions too so you can install uBlock origin, though it's built-in ad-block is quite good but its still cool being able to install other extensions.
Yep, been on Orion for a few months now, not looking back. Safari was awful.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
#169Meanwhile firefox with full adblock and adguard dns/pihole if you like to selfhost, never seen an ad on my samsung phone.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store
#170Scrolling through the comments reading about all the adblockers that folks recommend makes my head spin. Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser? Looking through the app store I see so many that are clearly trying to impersonate the well known ones by using similar names. It sounds like uBlock Origin Lite is trusted by many, but watch out for Ublock and 1Block, which are also top App…
> but watch out for Ublock and 1Block, which are also top App Store results.
Honestly this is more of an App Store issue than an Adblock one. For all of Apple's purported talents in curation, they really cannot seem to filter out the odd trojan horses: https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/warning-fraudulent-app-imper...