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Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by colvasaur » Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 12:59 AM UTC

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…

That’s funny, I remember the only way to block ads on my Android phone back many years ago was to root it. I was thrilled how easy it was to block ads on the iPhone when I switched.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by standard_indian » Sun, Aug 10, 2025, 3:33 PM UTC

colvasaur wrote: post #461

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…

That’s funny, I remember the only way to block ads on my Android phone back many years ago was to root it. I was thrilled how easy it was to block ads on the iPhone when I switched.

Reverse for me. I daily drive an Android and a iPhone. Using AdGuard on both for devices for device level ad blocking. The quality of getting ads blocked on android is super high while it's medium to low on ios when using chrome.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by notakio » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 11:53 AM UTC

cced wrote: post #455

notakio wrote: post #437

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Besides lsof and netstat?

Can you expand on this? Do they package those and use them with chrome? How are they using them?

I simply meant that if you monitor a given application using on-system network tools, you quickly get an accurate idea of what/who that application talks to. And browsers are super-chatty to all sorts of destinations that are not immediately apparent to an end user who is just clicking around the web.

Re: uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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Post by const_cast » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

cptskippy wrote: post #316

const_cast wrote: post #310

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Thunderbird search is one of the best I've ever seen. Very granular options. Highly recommend.

I've managed to divest myself of most Google Apps. At this point I'm only using them for shared docs or calendars.

I recommend fastmail for calendars. Its pretty convenient, if you host your mail there already. CalDAV is really nice too so you can use your fancy calendar management apps, like thunderbird or outlook.

Shared docs I haven't cracked yet but I haven't needed to. But I hear nextcloud can do it. But that's a whole can of worms.