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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by pdntspa »

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

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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?

Dude do you even know how much telemetry Chrome sends back to the mothership?

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by eipi10_hn »

saagarjha wrote: post #302
gorhill wrote: post #187

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Those webpages used to "test" blockers are frowned upon, see: https://x.com/gorhill/status/1583581072197312512 There are many reasons that sort of online tools are not able to reliably test a content blocker: - Many content blockers are designed to fool pages to think no content blocker is installed - Content blockers filter according to real, actual cases, not synthetic cases used in their tests

Would you be supportive of an "adblock test page" that literally just reports if the adblocker is working correctly, rather than how good it is? Like maybe an EICAR-like rule that is added to EasyList that matches an element on that page?

There is. If you are using uBO Lite, enable the "uBlock test filters" list, wait a bit and click on the home page button at the right. It will lead to https://ublockorigin.github.io/uBOL-home/tests/test-filters....

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by eipi10_hn »

kovariantenkak wrote: post #441
gorhill wrote: post #193

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> it claims to use zero CPU There is no claim of "zero CPU". The claim is that the service worker wakes up only when necessary -- it is designed to be suspended by default from the ground up. In Optimal and Complete modes, the content scripts will of course execute, without the service worker being unsuspended if no filtering occurs, but perform only the necessary work and bail out ASAP if not needed. In Basic or "No…

Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense now. I'm still confused about what level of access is given to the extension and what using the extension means. Clicking on the extension asks for access to the current website, so I'm assuming that without giving access there or clicking "Always Allow on Every Website..." in the Safari settings, the extension does not have access to the web page contents. Basic filter…

Yes, Basic can still block the connection requests without any permissions.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by imzadi »

dotcoma wrote: post #376
imzadi wrote: post #197

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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.

It blocks robocalls. When someone calls you it checks the call against a database of robocallers and blocks known spam calls. It can also screen calls. It works pretty well, but it's not worth $7/week.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by roryirvine »

imzadi wrote: post #456
dotcoma wrote: post #376

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Why would anyone even add anything called Robokiller ? What is it supposed to do? I never pay for anything recurring. Most are scams anyway.

It blocks robocalls. When someone calls you it checks the call against a database of robocallers and blocks known spam calls. It can also screen calls. It works pretty well, but it's not worth $7/week.

Is that functionality not a standard part of ios? The stock Android dialler has had it since 2015...

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by singpolyma3 »

augustk wrote: post #326
singpolyma3 wrote: post #153

Doesn't work on iOS

After installation you need to enable it in Settings -> Apps -> Safari -> Extensions -> uBlock Origin Lite. I also uninstalled my previous advertising blocker AdBlock Pro by selecting "Delete App" in Settings -> General -> iPhone Storage -> AdBlock Pro.

Yes I tried that before I commented. It just says "not supported by this version of safari"

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by imzadi »

roryirvine wrote: post #457
imzadi wrote: post #456

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It blocks robocalls. When someone calls you it checks the call against a database of robocallers and blocks known spam calls. It can also screen calls. It works pretty well, but it's not worth $7/week.

Is that functionality not a standard part of ios? The stock Android dialler has had it since 2015...

You can block unknown callers, but it just pushes them to voicemail. Robokiller intercepts the calls and keeps them off your phone completely.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by izacus »

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.

Getting Apple to allow you to use Firefox? Instead of geoblocking that for EU?
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