I don't understand why someone, with some technical education, would use any chromium based browser instead of firefox, any ideas?
uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
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#393Why is it region-locked? So weird
https://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698 for all app stores.
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What’s the alternative? Using an Android phone with all of Google’s surveillance? A windows laptop with bad battery life, bloatware, and Microsoft’s increasingly bad dark pattern abuse? I feel like no matter what, consumers are screwed.
I have been extremely happy with GrapheneOS. The built-in browser includes ad blocking, although it is not as good as uBlock Origin.
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#395On the settings page of the extension, I got a popup to allow "ib.adnxs.com" access to browsing data. What is this?
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It would be limited if it _literally_ wasn't a question, right? I'm opening myself to understand things. I don't understand the combativeness.
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#397People 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
#398On the settings page of the extension, I got a popup to allow "ib.adnxs.com" access to browsing data. What is this?
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#399People 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,…