Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]
by rgovostes on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @03:34PM
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There is a content blocker API that has been available for a few years on both macOS and iOS, and there are third-party ad blockers that use it. 1Blocker is a popular one.
The design is more performant than holding each load up on a traditional browser extension's decision, and does not permit the content blocker to track your browsing history and then upload it somewhere.
It also conveniently allows Apple to get away with not providing a more flexible browser extension API while supporting the most common use case.
Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]
by scarface74 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:37PM
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Apple has had a content blocking framework on iOS for years that not only works with Safari, but also works with embedded web views that use the SafariViewController.
Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]
by briandear on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:19AM
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> why don't they allow ad blockers on safari?
They do. I am running Crystal right now on mobile Safari. I also have ad blockers on desktop Safari as well.
Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]
by diffeomorphism on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:22AM
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Safari has its problems: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
Though you can get some ad blockers which do less.
Uhh... Mozilla Firefox anybody? If Apple cares about privacy so much then why don't they allow ad blockers on safari? I mean, even the Brave browser on iOS is better then Safari at blocking trackers and advertisements. Firefox also tells me how many trackers they have blocked and also give me the option to completely opt out of any telemetry data collection.