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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by const_cast »

nemomarx wrote: post #119
jncfhnb wrote: post #97

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It’s not mind boggling at all. It’s controlled by one entity that is not optimizing for good search, but rather its own financial gain.

What's the entity in question for KDE search?

KDE search is super good, if you're referring to krunner. It searches everything, bookmarks, open tabs, filenames, paths, and even file contents. And it's really fast.

You have to turn the file indexer on or install it if you don't have it. Try `baloo status` or `baloo6 status`. Poke around in setting too so you can index what you need and not temp files.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by Shank »

alephnerd wrote: post #276
jeffhuys wrote: post #233

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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".

I’ve found this to be the case, but I absolutely do not consider this acceptable. It’s just uncontrolled memory use. I also experience this on Safari though, so I suspect it’s a WebKit issue.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by j1elo »

mock-possum wrote: post #234
bspammer wrote: post #54

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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”

You'been answered already about the support periods in Android, but let me add more for you (and others mentioning support times of the system): in Android this problem doesn't exist to begin with. The fact that getting a new web browser version is anchored to getting a whole new operating system version, is preposterous and absurd, pure planned obsolescence from Apple. You would just upgrade your Chrome, Brave, Firefox, or whatever browser app, and do with them what your were trying to do. (in this case install a browser extension, for which the best one qould be Firefox).

This situation with iOS sounds as ridiculous as if it was mandatory to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 in order to update the Edge browser. (Edited to remove useless rant)

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by Shank »

bittercynic wrote: post #204

Anyone know if there's a possibility this will be available in older versions of iOS? I'm very reluctant to update my iPhone. It's working well right now, and it seems just about impossible to roll back an update if it breaks something important.

What will it break? You can stay out of date but you’re more vulnerable to security vulnerabilities and less stuff works.

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Post by lapcat »

saagarjha wrote: post #307
lapcat wrote: post #306

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https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

Ah, unofficial fork

It was a fork. I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "unofficial". Gorhill said at the time that he didn't have time to maintain a Safari version, but he was aware of the fork, which mostly shared code with upstream, and seemingly endorsed the fork.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-Safari-and-Cana...

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Post by cptskippy »

const_cast wrote: post #310
cptskippy wrote: post #186

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> The search in Google Messages on Android is completely useless too. It's literally all Google products. They've just simplified and contextualized and added other things over the years such that if you're not searching for something already above the fold then it won't show up. When I was using Gmail I had an email with important information that I needed about once a year. I knew the exact subject and who it was f…

Thunderbird search is one of the best I've ever seen. Very granular options. Highly recommend.

I've managed to divest myself of most Google Apps. At this point I'm only using them for shared docs or calendars.

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Post by comprev »

deanishe wrote: post #293
dylan604 wrote: post #230

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It helps to realize that the search is less of a tool for you to find information and more of a tool to show you an ad targeted on your search query. That's why ads are the top results and the organic data you wanted is after the fold. You're asking an ad company for information, and you don't expect an ad as a result? They are only continuing to show the organic results to tease you into coming back..

Is Apple really an ad company? I think it's reasonable to expect better from them.

Since Apple take a slice of the App store sale it's in their best interest to "feature" apps which are already popular and bring in good revenue.

Why promote an app with 100 sales over another with 10,000?

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Post by thimabi »

saagarjha wrote: post #295
thimabi wrote: post #173

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That’s in fact one of the gripes I have with certain MacOS software. It would be far better if menu bar icons were opt-in rather than opt-out. The average non-technical user eventually ends up having tons of these icons in the menu bar.

The latest version will let you remove them even if the app itself doesn't let you.

I mean, that’s great, but it would be even better if MacOS required explicit permissions before allowing an app to place an icon in the menu bar.

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Post by SoftTalker »

I don't understand why Safari (and any browser) does not include ad blocking out of the box, ideally enabled by default but at least an option. Nobody like ads. Especially ads that take over a majority of your screen space and seem to fight efforts to close them (moving, slow response to tapping "X", etc.)

Ads are just a cancer on the web. If a site can only exist by ad revenue then it should not exist. Block them all.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by digianarchist »

SoftTalker wrote: post #319

I don't understand why Safari (and any browser) does not include ad blocking out of the box, ideally enabled by default but at least an option. Nobody like ads. Especially ads that take over a majority of your screen space and seem to fight efforts to close them (moving, slow response to tapping "X", etc.) Ads are just a cancer on the web. If a site can only exist by ad revenue then it should not exist. Block them al…

Probably an anti-trust issue given their relationship with Google.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933206/google-apple-se...

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