Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other blockers for Safari

Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by pcr910303 on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:01AM (#21026748)

It’s not like Safari is blocking all ad blockers like Google Chrome did... its more of deprecating & removing APIs that can be abused to track users browsing history by disguising itself into a browser extension. Safari provides an alternative API that allows content blocking, that IMHO is better considering that

* it doesn’t allow leaking browsing history

* it runs in native code (not js like alternative ad blockers) so much fast

In a way, Apple is doing this to protect user privacy.

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by saagarjha on Friday September 20, 2019 @10:43AM (#21027215)

Apple is doing pretty much exactly the same thing Google is.

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by pcr910303 on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:38AM (#21027883)

Last time I checked, Google Chrome doesn’t offer an alternative API that allows efficient ad blocking.

In contrast, Apple has introduced & provided the API for a few years, and popularized the idea of mobile win ad blockers.

I can’t see how Apple is doing ‘pretty much the same as Google’. Can you clarify?

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Re:Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin and other block... by saagarjha on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:45AM (#21027976)

Google is adding essentially the same thing with Manifestv3 and has been raked over the coals for it.

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