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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by socalgal2 »

brycewray wrote: post #270
socalgal2 wrote: post #257

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I needed to add search to my own website. I wanted it to be local search (the titles for the documents are all available locally). I tried several different popular 1000s of stars JavaScript search libraries. All but one failed on simple searches. Like if the title was "See Spot Run to the Park" and my search was "Park" or "Run" this title would not be listed as a result and titles with neither word would appear. I r…

Have you tried Pagefind? https://github.com/Pagefind/pagefind https://pagefind.app/

no. At a glance it appears to be create an index at site build time. That's not what I needed. I needed to search user document titles (different for every user). Those document titles are synced to local storage. So not a build time thing

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by m463 »

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…

> The Reality Distortion Field is the enemy.

Don't get me started on apple's "privacy is a right" marketing nonsense.

for all intents and purposes, it does not apply to your phone.

Can you firewall your phone? Can you figure out what is executing? Can you figure out what an app does or who it contacts?

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by simscitizen »

TheDong wrote: post #383
Kaytaro wrote: post #215

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That's funny because iMessage search works quite well if you can find it buried in the interface. I have a feeling Apple themselves forgot it exists and hasn't gotten around to 'modernizing' it with AI yet.

> iMessage search works quite well if you can find it buried in the interface And as long as you only want to search all messages, not a single conversation. Let me give an example: I know a person sent me an image in imessage about one year ago. How do I search "from:user has:attachment date:2024-07-*"? In gmail that's easy, in discord, that's easy. Does imessage search have literally any of those filters? Searching…

If you type the name of the person, it should allow you to create a filter for "Messages with: Person". It should also pop up a filter bubble for photos. From there I think you can type in some query and it should do a query on the photos via text. I don't think you can add your date filter though.

Second way would be to open that conversation view, click on the contact icon at the top of the view, which should then bring you to a details page that lists a bunch of metadata and settings about the conversation (e.g. participants, hide alerts, ...). One of the sections shows all photos from that conversation. Browse that until you find the one you care about.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by khana »

presentation wrote: post #399
btown wrote: post #356

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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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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by bigyabai »

SilverElfin wrote: post #384
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…

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 ditched my Mac after 10.15 and never looked back. Consumers will survive.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by fsflover »

SilverElfin wrote: post #384
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…

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'm using Librem 5, a GNU/Linux phone with PureOS (Debian derivative). Full desktop Firefox runs smoothly with all desktop plugins.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by js2 »

kccqzy wrote: post #370
radicaldreamer wrote: post #352

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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

Yeah but we are comparing that against MV3 uBlock Origin Lite which is the subject of this article. They are the same in terms of privacy protection.

> They are the same in terms of privacy protection

Only if uBO is in "Basic mode" in which case it isn't really any different than all the other regex-based content blockers. In optimal or advanced mode it "requires broad permission to read and modify data on all websites."

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by jeroenhd »

mcsniff wrote: post #405
int0x29 wrote: post #402

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Just run Firefox for Android. You can run a full copy of mv2 ublock origin

Graphene recommends Vanadium as Firefox "does not have internal sandboxing on Android".

Graphene is right if you're afraid someone is trying to hack your phone with an RCE in some form of drive-by exploit to hijack your browser.

While RCE attacks and Firefox 0days do exist, I think the privacy improvements outweighs the anti-exploit benefits provided extra layers of sandboxing.

That said, Firefox does seem to be rolling out Fission on Android, which brings hope that site isolation may come soon so that we can have both benefits at the same time.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by mathiaspoint »

duskwuff wrote: post #371
mathiaspoint wrote: post #365

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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.

Even the user space updates (outside gnome which most people avoid) don't make breaking changes at nearly the rate you see in iOS.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by haltcatchfire »

fsflover wrote: post #416
SilverElfin wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'm using Librem 5, a GNU/Linux phone with PureOS (Debian derivative). Full desktop Firefox runs smoothly with all desktop plugins.

How's Librem as a daily driver? Battery life, camera, reception/calls etc? I'm eager to get a proper Linux phone, but got burned by the awful performance of Pinephone.
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