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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by smoldesu on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:20AM (#31895795)
They definitely have the capital to make it happen. Every time I boot up Safari after a MacOS update, I'm consistently wowed by how little of their revenue actually goes in to making a comfortable, feature-complete browser. It's almost like you're using a different, nerfed internet with Safari, but maybe that's just me being angry that uBlock Origin doesn't work anymore.
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by robertoandred on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:14PM (#31896683)
There are plenty of ad blockers for Safari, not sure what nerfed experience you're referring to.
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by danShumway on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:06PM (#31897477)
This has been debated to death, but there are no ad blockers on Safari that will work as well as uBlock Origin, because Safari doesn't have all of the APIs/hooks exposed that would be necessary to implement uBlock Origin's more advanced features.

It's the same problem that developers were talking about with Chrome's Manifest V3 -- to the point where popular adblockers for Safari like Adguard actually run outside of the browser so that they're not quite as limited as they otherwise would be by Safari's apis.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by raydev on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:12PM (#31900141)
> There are plenty of ad blockers for Safari

And none of them work as well as uBlock Origin on Chrome.

Trust me, I tried. I even paid money to try a few extensions out on Safari in the hopes I would get a better experience, but even that doesn't work.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by NegativeLatency on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:00PM (#31909417)
(As a safari user) I've found running a pihole to be a good solution

Also been trying out this webkit based browser for macos: https://browser.kagi.com (supports ublock origin)

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by smoldesu on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:27PM (#31898615)
And which of those ad blockers are Open Source?
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by robertoandred on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:57AM (#31917845)
AdGuard
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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by noisem4ker on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:50PM (#31898109)
The nerfed experience of addons only specifying a significantly limited list of blocking rules, giving up being able to autonomously allow or deny each request with arbitrary parameters, surrogate scripts (replacing the original, tracking ones with privacy-friendly reimplementations) and cosmetically alter the webpage (e.g. fixing the layout with missing ads).

Partial source: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

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