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A comment on uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS. Parent comment

Re:uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS by GeekyBear on Saturday June 21, 2025 @07:45PM (#44341569)
If you don't dont see any additional value, then chose choose one of the free ad blocking options.

One of the nice things for developers working in the Apple ecosystem is that users are willing to support well crafted software.

Although, sometimes you do run into developers as selfless as Gorhill who still craft excellent software.

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Re:uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS by Krasnol on Sunday June 22, 2025 @04:02AM (#44344929)
Don't you have to pay money to host your app there in the first place which is why there is so few good, free applications?

Also: what would be "additional value" in an adblocker? Either it works or it doesn't.

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Re:uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS by robenkleene on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:24PM (#44348165)
> Also: what would be "additional value" in an adblocker? Either it works or it doesn't.

uBlock has over 13k commits, include just 15 minutes ago right now.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commits/master/

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Re:uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS by hombre_fatal on Sunday June 22, 2025 @04:26PM (#44350004)
Well, what do you think makes them work or not? A lot of constant work.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS by wooger on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @06:02AM (#44364495)
The restrictions on iOS content blockers mean that it's not possible to add value, it's just basic competence to apply pre-existing filter lists maintained by someone else.

Gorhill's browser extensions are great, have actual features. This isn't possible in iOS.

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