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uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by w0m »

remus wrote: post #188
zelphirkalt wrote: post #83

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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…

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.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by KPGv2 »

TheJoeMan wrote: post #160
zelphirkalt wrote: post #83

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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…

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 search bar should only search local.

Now, if he'd had a file with that as its name, and a text document with that URL, I would've expected those first. Maybe not at first. Depends on disk space allocated to indexing.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by gorhill »

kovariantenkak wrote: post #17
dialup_sounds wrote: post #13

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Reading and altering content on web pages is the purpose of the extension.

That does not answer the question in any way. Especially, since it claims to use zero CPU when active and because iOS ad blocking works differently.

> it claims to use zero CPU

There is no claim of "zero CPU". The claim is that the service worker wakes up only when necessary -- it is designed to be suspended by default from the ground up.

In Optimal and Complete modes, the content scripts will of course execute, without the service worker being unsuspended if no filtering occurs, but perform only the necessary work and bail out ASAP if not needed.

In Basic or "No filtering" modes, no content scripts are injected.

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Edit: Sorry, I do say "uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources while content blocking is ongoing". When I say "itself" I am referring to the service worker as seen in Chromium's Task Manager. The service worker isn't required for examples when navigating to `example.com` or here at `news.ycombinator.com`. All top content blockers I have looked at do require their service worker to execute, even for merely just switching between tabs. Some even use tricks to prevent their service worker to be suspended at all.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Squarex wrote: post #14
frou_dh wrote: post #9

I've been puzzled reading previous discussions about Safari where people acted as if it doesn't have good ad-blocking, just because the brand name extension they're familiar with wasn't available. There has been very good ad-blocking available on Safari for a long time (both macOS and iOS) using for example AdGuard.

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

I thought the whole point of iOS and macOS content blockers is that it does not have to be trusted, since there is never any data flowing out, only a list of blocked IP addresses that the operating system refers to (like a windows hosts (file).

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by nelox »

I tried the beta. UBOlite interfered with Safari’s native hide distracting items. The UI was unintuitive for setting features. Performance seemed slower than Ghostery. I’m sticking with Ghostery, which has none of those issues, until UBOlite matures.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by imzadi »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #158
cons0le wrote: post #142

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Its great for the app store if people mistakenly download the wrong app. They can increase the total downloads stats for more than one app that way. And it creates more "engagement' with the app store. They don't care that it's "forced" engagement

Does Apple still allow shamefully antipattern subscriptions like $7/week? They are so complicit in garbage rebill apps, it's pathetic.

RoboKiller recently went from like $9.99/mo to $7/week.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by WD-42 »

SirMaster wrote: post #177
prrar wrote: post #148

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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?

Adblockers don’t just keep working forever.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by DASD »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #157
saw-lau wrote: post #52

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Just adding another alternative that I've been using for years for people to consider - 1Blocker. https://1blocker.com/

1Blocker is worth the one time lifetime purchase, works with your family iCloud+ account.

This and Little Snitch Mini.
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