The Electron app needs to run to set options or to force filters update, not the rest of the time. It's still an annoyance but it's better than nothing.
I would love for uBlock to find a workaround.
as a windows user i was puzzled by this when installing adguard
My guess is that it's engineered like this to simplify their code base(s) between their various free plugins and their paid "Adguard for Mac" and "Adguard for Windows" apps.
How does it not work properly? Been using it and am pretty satisfied so far.
This doesn't mean what you think it means. What you wrote means that web sites put text on their pages stating, "We're proxying our ads so you can't block them, nanny nanny boo boo!"
You probably mean "specific" purpose.
More to the point, this isn't new. We were doing this on web sites at least as far back as the early 2000's.
Perhaps you are thinking of the term "express written consent", but there it's the word "written" that means it was, well, written.
This was actually one of the (many) things that motivated me to migrate away from OSX.