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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by concinds »

m463 wrote: post #412
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?

Most people don't know that Apple knows your location at all times (since Location Services go through their servers) and the contents of all notifications (which go through their servers too). A few apps (like Signal) go out of their way to ensure notifications are private, but most don't.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by concinds »

wubrr wrote: post #368
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…

Apple's software is generally low quality with more bugs and less features than equivalent linux/oss software. There is a long list of 5, 10 - year old, well-known bugs that apple simply ignores. They know their userbase is built off of marketing and 'design', not product quality. > Also funny that other devs had the gall to make people pay (sometimes subscriptions!) for Safari adblockers inferior to the free adblock…

Yeah. Fantastic hardware, very decent OSes, mostly mediocre software, though it tends to be clean and minimalistic at least. Thank God for third-party devs and especially open-source.

> apple fangirl

Tends to be dudes, in my experience.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by VignuB »

Great to know that we have the option to use uBOL on Safari. uBO is arguably the best adblocker on Firefox (and on Chromium browsers still on manifest v2.)

Not to be a downer, but why should I use this over existing well performing content blockers like Wipr 2 or Adguard? But yes, I get it more the options for us users the merrier!

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by xattt »

kccqzy wrote: post #350
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 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.

> legacy technology … 2015

If there’s anything that makes you feel old, it’s this.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by Citizen8396 »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #235
Citizen8396 wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can disable the menu bar icon in settings...

I believe if you do that, the filter lists don't auto-update. That's the reason for the menu bar app.

If you disable it, you can still see (silently delivered) notifications about filter updates.

EDIT: On a fresh install, AdGuard prompts to run in the background for extension updates. I also tend to separately toggle "launch AdGuard for Safari at Login" option.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by notakio »

mywrathacademia wrote: post #430
pdntspa wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screw Chrome; both Safari and Chrome are inferior to Firefox' adblocking toolkit And for the record Ublock Origin used to have a Safari extension. But that was forced to be phased out a couple of OS updates ago for reasons I can't remember. In any case, as someone who will not touch Google's spyware browser with a ten-foot pole, it's nice to have a flagship alternative to Firefox that does decent adblocking.

What makes you think Google Chrome is spyware?

Besides lsof and netstat?

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by JKCalhoun »

Unfortunately, I installed uBlock Origin Lite but it shows up disabled in Safari (MacOS). I have latest OS and Safari (MacBook Pro, Nov. 2023).

Console shows: 'Private sandbox for net.raymondhill.uBlock-Origin-Lite.Extension : '

I've tried a number of things to reset Safari but still no luck.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by TheDong »

simscitizen wrote: post #413
TheDong wrote: post #383

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> 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…

I admit I was wrong in my understanding of iMessages capabilities.

I remembered its search sucking, and also it not working on all my devices, so I quit using it and regurgitated a stale criticism.

Still, the search is useless to me if I can't do it on my linux desktop (like I can with email, discord, and every other chat service I use), so I'd still say iMessage has a laughably lacking search by nature of it only working on ios/macos, when all other chat apps I use offer at least some search on ios/android/linux

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