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Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Post by noname120 »

macNchz wrote: post #105
technothrasher wrote: post #73

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I get more frustrated from when they go the other direction. Google Maps, for instance. When I go to the website, it asks if I'd like to use the app instead, with the usual dark pattern of having the "no" button greyed out. But after I tell it no, as soon as I touch the search bar, it automatically opens the app anyway. I wish there was a setting in Safari that disabled websites from opening apps.

> I wish there was a setting in Safari that disabled websites from opening apps. This has been one of my biggest iOS peeves for a long time—I really wish that installing an app wasn’t a commitment to letting it handle all of the links it wants to. It’s particularly annoying because a lot of apps are terrible at actually handling the link: the app will show a login screen or some kind of interstitial and then just for…

> letting it handle all of the links it wants to

It doesn’t. App developers have to verify that they own the corresponding domain names that they want to handle with their apps: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/supporting-a...

Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Post by bigyabai »

nxpnsv wrote: post #14
tapete2 wrote: post #8

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Yeah, the ad situation really is so horrible it is worth paying to get out of it. Also supporting an inde dev to provide a useful app with the equivalent of a nice cup of coffee doesn't feel all that bad.

Well, it's a $5 app on the App Store. ~$3.20 will go towards paying the indie dev, and most of the remaining ~$1.50 will go directly into Apple's coffers as a reward for doing such a good job locking down their operating system.

Kinda feels like Apple is deliberately making it horrible so you view paying them as the only ethical solution. For example, I don't have to do this song-and-dance to block ads on non-monopolized platforms.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Post by gruez »

beala wrote: post #164
gruez wrote: post #163

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>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…

>I took a second look at ad blockers on the app store, and many report that they collect various bits of data.

Because the "app privacy" disclosures that apple only contains broad categories about what data the app can possibly collect. If the app collects analytics in the UI itself (ie. the part where you select filters or whatever), it has to say the app collects analytics. It's not possible to say "we only collect analytics on your usage of the app, not what your browsing history is".

>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?

Yes.

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Post by jjice »

trenchpilgrim wrote: post #3

We already have Wipr 2 ( https://kaylees.site/wipr2.html ) on the App store which is a pretty dang great ad blocker and well worth the price.

I use both Wipr 2 and Adguard Pro. $15 total and well worth it. Adguard is mostly just to run custom rules for blocking elements.

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Post by ornornor »

jaffa2 wrote: post #157
ornornor wrote: post #37

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YT in the browser on iOS is torture.

How so? I also use adguard and yt on browser in ios works brilliantly.

Rewinding the video by double tapping left or skipping ahead by double tapping right, enabling subtitles, watching in 2x speed, full screen, toggling back and forth without losing your place in the video.

You get no ads but everything else sucks. I haven’t tried sibling’s suggestion for vinegar though, I’m taking about stock with a dns blocker.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Post by Dwedit »

EasyPrivacy has too many false positives, and no way to report them. If you are a techie who understands what the messages mean, and can click the button to proceed to a site on a false positive, then it's fine to have it turned on. But if you are setting up ad blocking for a non-technical user, I would recommend turning EasyPrivacy off.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Post by Someone »

mort96 wrote: post #100
ptk wrote: post #99

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This behavior (as far as I can tell) has broken the Expensify iOS app for us at work. We have a conditional access policy that requires a “compliant” device to succeed the SSO login. However, only the iOS Edge browser can prove compliance and Expensify refuses to hand over that login process to the Edge browser preferring to use its own built-in browser. So login fail and as far as I can tell there is nothing we can…

I wonder what iOS Edge does which iOS Safari doesn't do, considering both are just UIs over WebKit... Not that it matters, it's still an excellent example of stuff not working because links don't work as links anymore.

> I wonder what iOS Edge does which iOS Safari doesn't do

I don’t know whether that’s right, but I read “We have a conditional access policy that requires a “compliant” device to succeed the SSO login. However, only the iOS Edge browser can prove compliance” as “our access policy does not allow logging in from Safari”. If that’s true, it’s not something Edge or Safari does or doesn’t do.

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Post by lapcat »

bigyabai wrote: post #172
nxpnsv wrote: post #14

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Yeah, the ad situation really is so horrible it is worth paying to get out of it. Also supporting an inde dev to provide a useful app with the equivalent of a nice cup of coffee doesn't feel all that bad.

Well, it's a $5 app on the App Store. ~$3.20 will go towards paying the indie dev, and most of the remaining ~$1.50 will go directly into Apple's coffers as a reward for doing such a good job locking down their operating system. Kinda feels like Apple is deliberately making it horrible so you view paying them as the only ethical solution. For example, I don't have to do this song-and-dance to block ads on non-monopol…

> Well, it's a $5 app on the App Store. ~$3.20 will go towards paying the indie dev, and most of the remaining ~$1.50 will go directly into Apple's coffers as a reward for doing such a good job locking down their operating system.

This is not a defense but merely a correction: The small developer program is 85%/15% rather than 70%/30% for anyone making less than $1 million per year.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Post by gaws »

mlok wrote: post #71

The 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)

Orion on iOS allows you to install extensions, including uBlock Origin.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store

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Post by latexr »

mort96 wrote: post #90
latexr wrote: post #89

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> you click a link in an app, it opens in an in-app web view where you're not logged in But you could be. You could log in from the in-app web view, and it would be remembered and compartmentalised in that app, so that next time you click a link you’re logged in.

I could be, but I'm not. And I don't want to compartmentalize logins to Slack.

To be clear, what I meant is that the logins inside the in-app browser do not affect the other in-app browsers and the main browser. I understand this is not your preferred solution, but it is a way to make the situation suck less.
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