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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by fmajid on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:18PM (#43324728)
Apple is totally an advertising company. Have you missed the part about their stalling phone, tablet and laptop revenues, that they hope to compensate with "services" revenue, i.e. App Store 30% racketeering and App Store search ads?
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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by gruez on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:24PM (#43324818)
>Apple is totally an advertising company. Have you missed the part about [...]

Have you missed the part of my comment of my comment where I specifically mentioned "web advertising presence"? That's relevant, because ublock would only work on web ads. It can't block ads in the app store, or any other app (eg. spotify).

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by fmajid on Monday March 10, 2025 @04:00PM (#43325319)
Apple also serves ads and trackers on the web, not just in-app or on the App Store. Here are the relevant built-in uBlock Origin filter rules:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AuBlockOrigin%2FuAssets+ap...

Thus they also clearly have an incentive to sabotage uBO. It may be a much smaller piece of their revenue than at Google, but it is a huge proportion of their revenue growth. Don't believe Apple's marketing about their caring for privacy, belied by their actions.

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by gruez on Monday March 10, 2025 @04:32PM (#43325737)
>Here are the relevant built-in uBlock Origin filter rules:

Can you link to a specific rule that shows Apple has web ads? The search results you linked either removeparam filters (which I guess is "tracking", but probably the most benign kind), malware sites that contain "apple.com", or analytics domains that seemingly belong to apple. Moreover there's no evidence that Safari's content blocker restrictions make a difference here. The domains are trivially blocked so it's unclear how apple is materially gaining from their nerfed adblock.

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by 0x457 on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:48PM (#43326474)
Ads that apple serves (outside of marketing pages on apple.com) are ads that displayed on ad supported ads. uBO won't help you there. Luckily, every Apple device comes with an AdBlock for those ads - airplane mode.
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