I get the best of all worlds by using Orion, I can use uBlock Origin (the Firefox version) and also get WebKit which Safari uses. Orion seemed unstable for me, but I gave it another shot a couple of months ago, and it has been as stable as Safari for me. Glad to hear someone gave Safari another AdBlock alternative though, the more, the merrier.
uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#352People should be way more upset at the fact that Safari adblocking today is still inferior to even MV3 Google Chrome. Apple's implementation of declarativeNetRequest was semi-broken until the very latest iOS 18.6. Apple can do the bare minimum, years after everyone else, and barely get called out. The Reality Distortion Field is the enemy. Also funny that other devs had the gall to make people pay (sometimes subscrip…
I agree with you regarding how Apple can do the bare minimum and barely get called out. But the fact is, I don't know of anything who's using declarativeNetRequest on Safari. The ecosystem of Safari blocking is centered around the legacy technology of content blockers from 2015. And the legacy technology works well enough that there's no pressure for either Apple or adblocker developers to adopt the new thing.
The legacy technology is also privacy-protecting in the sense that normal ad-blocking on iOS doesn’t use any third party JS filtering or reading of data on the page.
It breaks down because there are a ton of workarounds sites and ad-networks implement so it’s not super effective compared to MV2 ublock-origin
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#353So 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…
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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#354I get the best of all worlds by using Orion, I can use uBlock Origin (the Firefox version) and also get WebKit which Safari uses. Orion seemed unstable for me, but I gave it another shot a couple of months ago, and it has been as stable as Safari for me. Glad to hear someone gave Safari another AdBlock alternative though, the more, the merrier.
How do you find Orion for web development (if you do any of that)?
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#355On the settings page of the extension, I got a popup to allow "ib.adnxs.com" access to browsing data. What is this?
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#356People should be way more upset at the fact that Safari adblocking today is still inferior to even MV3 Google Chrome. Apple's implementation of declarativeNetRequest was semi-broken until the very latest iOS 18.6. Apple can do the bare minimum, years after everyone else, and barely get called out. The Reality Distortion Field is the enemy. Also funny that other devs had the gall to make people pay (sometimes subscrip…
The release notes mentioning this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...
Not too many sources I could find other than https://matisyahu.blog/2025/07/31/and-it-is-raining-again/ - but apparently the bug was so bad that any adblocker attempting to use declarativeNetRequest could break all Cloudflare websites for the user.
In the wake of Google finally sounding the death knells of Manifest V2, it's good to see Apple's at least making progress towards... parity with Google's MV3 feature set? Not the privacy leadership that Apple's known for, but progress is progress.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#357I get the best of all worlds by using Orion, I can use uBlock Origin (the Firefox version) and also get WebKit which Safari uses. Orion seemed unstable for me, but I gave it another shot a couple of months ago, and it has been as stable as Safari for me. Glad to hear someone gave Safari another AdBlock alternative though, the more, the merrier.
How do you find Orion for web development (if you do any of that)?
Sorry I don't do any web dev, I only do firmware/uefi/bios
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to require iOS 18.6, it’s working for me after updating.
I didn’t know there was a 18.6. I usually get notification.
Update notifications seem to be delayed in iOS. Batches of devices get them at different times for A/B testing and reduce bandwidth requirements.
This is based on my personal observation of different devices. I could be wrong.
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
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”
9 year old phone? Don't worry, google won't care about you either.
at least they don't prevent firefox from supporting a 11 years old version.
Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
#360So 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…
Finally you can block ads on mobile? I've been using AdGuard for iOS Safari for ten years or so.
And I've been using Wipr and 1Blocker since iPhone SE-1 with Safari...