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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by duskwuff »

mathiaspoint wrote: post #365
duskwuff wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious what you believe the alternative is - "new features magically appear in released versions of an operating system without the software being updated"?

Seems to work fine on Linux unless you stick to kernels that are multiple decades old. Whether it's technical or social the situation on iOS is clearly inferior.

You're being disingenuous. There is more to an operating system than a kernel; new features in Linux software frequently require supporting software or libraries to be updated.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by alberth »

concinds wrote: post #348

People 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 imagine Apple has 20 billion reasons annually why not to enhance adblocking.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by ibicycle1984 »

MortyWaves wrote: post #44

So 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…

>> “uBO Lite” is not available for this version of Safari.

> This feels like a series of failures

Your "device" is too old, because you failed to pay Apple recently enough.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by dotcoma »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”

iPhone SE 1st edition?

2nd edition here, and I updated to 18.6 days ago.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by dotcoma »

imzadi wrote: post #197
hombre_fatal wrote: post #158

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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.

Why would anyone even add anything called Robokiller ?

What is it supposed to do?

I never pay for anything recurring. Most are scams anyway.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by Bud »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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”

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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by chongli »

zevon wrote: post #345
dylan604 wrote: post #341

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Most ad sales platforms have auctions for ad slots and/or keywords. If you want to game the system and have money to burn as growth hacking, you can place a larger value in those auctions/keywords to win a chance at your ad being placed in front of more eyeballs. When it comes to apps/games especially, people will chose whatever is posted from laziness, fomo, or just tired of looking and picking the easy route. I sus…

I get that it's always be about money in the end but I understand this sub-thread to be a bit more specific: Is there an ad sales platform run by Apple where your Benjamins have influence on the search ranking in the App Store? I and many other people here are not talking about things that are clearly ads (like a "featured" result or the ads shown by google and other search engines).

The App Store is an ad platform [1]. App developers are bidding on those search keywords.

[1] https://ads.apple.com/app-store/best-practices/keywords

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by throwawaylaptop »

lulzury wrote: post #296
badosu wrote: post #294

I don't understand why someone, with some technical education, would use any chromium based browser instead of firefox, any ideas?

That’s a pretty limited way of looking at the world: “Why would someone only do x instead of y?” Part of learning to understand others means developing cognitive flexibility.

Ever since covid, I playfully ask people if they can guess why a lot of COVID non believers stocked up on toilet paper and food at the beginning of the lockdown.

Of course many say "they somehow thought it wouldn't be available later stupidly!" But I look past that one, and ask for possibly other reasons.

I have asked probably 100 people at this point.

Not a SINGLE person has said "in case they were wrong about the virus, and it was actually dangerous, they wouldn't want to leave their house to go get stuff"

That was the reason my family bought. And some of my anti COVID friends. And no one has guessed that. And they almost can't believe it or understand it.

And this is coming from people who took the virus seriously, but apparently didn't think ahead to not have to leave their house for basic dry goods?

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