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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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

probably because Safari isn't chromium and is webkit? as for using Safari over other browsers on macOS, performance and low battery/power usage.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Using an ipad on the internet is so incomprehensibly bad without adblocking that I just don't even use it for normal browsing. The problem is I would rather use a website instead of an app because at least I can adblock the website (sans pihole or something). It was actually making me consider going back to an android tablet but here is a potential solution. Except it is not supported for my version of Safari (for now?). Awesome.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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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.

How is the overall Graphene OS experience? Do you have any problems with banking or payment apps?

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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On the settings page of the extension, I got a popup to allow "ib.adnxs.com" access to browsing data. What is this?

ib.adnxs.com is AppNexus/Xandr's ad network domain. This popup likely appears when the extension detects the domain trying to access your data and is prompting you whether to block it, not requesting permission for itself.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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post #366

Earlier 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.

I'll answer your question: 100% of web browser users do not care about which underlying engine the web browser is built on. And when they care about their web browser at all, they care about features and functionality.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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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.

Yeah that Google Search Deal is a 36% revenue share agreement for ad revenue stemming from being the default search engine, presumably that includes visiting a search result and then interacting with ads upon that page.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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post #356

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…

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,…

No wonder I could never get past the cloudflare human check pages!
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