If an EU citizen lives in the U.S., is this an option?
How does one install it?
What if I travel to the EU? Can I install it while there?
Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
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Re: Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
#72All I wanted to see was a single screenshot or video. Ars used to be such a wonderful site. Anyway: https://youtu.be/_6cmu0NuM3g
Bizarre how the scare popup doesn't have a button to immediately go to the right place in Settings (or even just enable the feature right there). Typical Apple though. It's the same mess on macOS to allow running software installed from the web.
Apple has never allowed any app to jump to straight into the right Settings page on iOS or macOS.
Even apps requesting notification changes require users to click through manually.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Orion is compatible with Firefox and Chrome extensions. What's Orion, and is it compatible with normal desktop Firefox and Chrome extensions, or with the mobile ones? > The lack of extensions in mobile browsers is a sign of Mozilla's decay, not a sign of Apple being unnecessarily restrictive. Agree with Mozilla's decay, but there's also a Chrome for iOS and that doesn't have uBlock Origin either, does it?
Chrome on Android doesn't support browser extensions. Google is an advertising company. They are not incentivized to allow extensions. Extensions block their ads, and are a risk vector for mobile users, who are often young, inexperienced, and running outdated systems software. > What's Orion A web browser, using the same Webkit as everybody else on iOS, with support for browser extensions. People give Apple too much…
I’m going to note that you haven’t said “yes you can run uBlock Origin with browser X”.
Re: Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
#74All I wanted to see was a single screenshot or video. Ars used to be such a wonderful site. Anyway: https://youtu.be/_6cmu0NuM3g
Bizarre how the scare popup doesn't have a button to immediately go to the right place in Settings (or even just enable the feature right there). Typical Apple though. It's the same mess on macOS to allow running software installed from the web.
On the one hand I agree that it's a bit silly that the messaging isn't clear. On the other hand, from my experience with Android installation, providing easy steps for end users who don't know what they're agreeing with leads to lots of malware and other nasty stuff.
Android has recently started blocking users from granting some sensitive permissions to apps from settings dialogues spawned by the app itself for this reason. You need to manually open the settings to grant the most sensitive permissions. This has the benefit of requiring the user to know what power they're granting these apps, but the process is a lot less straight-forward than this was on iOS.
Re: Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Chrome on Android doesn't support browser extensions. Google is an advertising company. They are not incentivized to allow extensions. Extensions block their ads, and are a risk vector for mobile users, who are often young, inexperienced, and running outdated systems software. > What's Orion A web browser, using the same Webkit as everybody else on iOS, with support for browser extensions. People give Apple too much…
I’m going to note that you haven’t said “yes you can run uBlock Origin with browser X”.
It obviously can. My first sentence was "uBO already runs on iOS." You asked if Orion was compatible with "normal desktop Firefox and Chrome extensions." There's no distinction between desktop Firefox extensions and mobile ones! Addons on both are just standard WebExtensions, and I've already noted that it runs both Chrome and Firefox extensions.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions
Your lack of understanding of what browser extensions are is exactly why it would be better if Apple explicitly banned browser extensions from the App Store. Ignorance is a malware vector, and even you, a commentator on Hacker News, do not understand the browser extension ecosystem. Instead, they're taking a bunch of flak for something they aren't even doing, all the while iOS has had a browser supporting uBO for years.
Re: Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
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The question wasn't "is it dead" but "will it recover"? And sadly I think not. I'm certainly not going to buy ports of years old games on the app store where they're expensive and mac exclusive when i can get them multiplatform and for much less on Steam - if I haven't already finished them years ago. Death Stranding lol. I preordered that on launch. And I use one x86 box, one PS5 and two Macs. I'm just not uninforme…
I just found it surprising how dead it is (according to Steam, anyways). Apple will have to do something drastic (and uncharacteristic) to recover. > Does that 2.08% Linux include the Deck btw? [edit] I think I was wrong, see sibling comment which indicates that 41% of Linux users are on the Deck's OS.
A good start would be to support some existing API (Vulcan and OpenGL) instead of making their own (Metal).
Or throw in the towel and do what Linux gaming did and just make a compatibility layer for Windows APIs and DirectX (wine/proton). Though this compatibility layer stuff has big issues with anti cheat software making it not really suitable for many online games.
Re: Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bizarre how the scare popup doesn't have a button to immediately go to the right place in Settings (or even just enable the feature right there). Typical Apple though. It's the same mess on macOS to allow running software installed from the web.
Apple has never allowed any app to jump to straight into the right Settings page on iOS or macOS. Even apps requesting notification changes require users to click through manually.
>Apple has never allowed any app to jump to straight into the right Settings page on iOS or macOS.
Wrong. Dating apps can and do deeplink to their geolocation permissions settings.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m going to note that you haven’t said “yes you can run uBlock Origin with browser X”.
It obviously can. My first sentence was "uBO already runs on iOS." You asked if Orion was compatible with "normal desktop Firefox and Chrome extensions." There's no distinction between desktop Firefox extensions and mobile ones! Addons on both are just standard WebExtensions, and I've already noted that it runs both Chrome and Firefox extensions. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions Your lack of understanding of wh…
"I noticed similar issues. I think the reason is that Orion on iOS supports fewer Web Extension APIs than it does on desktop (see the list below). As far as I know, uBlock Origin makes heavy use of the webRequest API, and this seems to be mostly unsupported on iOS. So I decided for me to use uBlock Origin only with the Mac version and rely on Orion’s built-in content blocking on iOS."
"When using the uBlock Origin browser extension on iPhone or iPad, it is unable to block any ads or trackers on webpages. The displayed interception count always remains at 0. This result is consistent whether downloading the version from Chrome or Firefox's software store."
Sounds like from that (may be out of date, some posts complaining are 15 days ago though), it runs but doesn't work:
https://orionfeedback.org/d/7741-ublock-origin-not-working-o...
This is in there officially from Orion:
"This is because Apple limitations, we will continue to improve Orion's native ad-block."
You should maybe give an apology unless you've been actually using it successfully with all features, not just installed it successfully.
Firefox Android actually runs real uBlock Origin in the ways you would expect.
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This is the problem many have with android - there’s a massive difference between different handsets That isn’t the case with an iPhone
I seriously don't understand why performance should degrade so much in time. Do they use crap flash chips in the cheaper models and Android writes so much to them that they run out of scratch space or something?
Your experience seems pretty unique to me.
My family uses Android exclusively (including extended family) and the only cases where performance degraded is with very cheap 10+ y/o phones that could no longer keep up with system updates that now take most of the storage space.
Even those more or less still work after reflashing a leaner FLOSS ROM.
Did you perhaps buy a crapware chinese phone and are receiving bloat/spyware?
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> You change your phone every year? Because I have this Android phone sitting on my desk for development. When I bought it it was almost as responsive as iPhones (and much cheaper). 4 years later the UI is a lagfest [1]. As a counter anecdotal evidence: I bought my current Android phone before the pandemic started (that is, more than 4 years ago), use it daily, and it's as responsive now as it was when I first used i…
This is the problem many have with android - there’s a massive difference between different handsets That isn’t the case with an iPhone
You're comparing Android (an OS) with iPhone (a phone brand).