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Switching browsers is easy. I have 3 on my desktop.

This is a non issue for me.

But I agree with your premise, Apple has been pulling this for a decade, consumers and developers all lose.

Safari has only weak protections, basically url-level blocking equivalent to Pihole. Last I checked ublock origin does allow blocking elements by DOM selector.

One day ads will start being plexed with content over websockets and the DOM-level protections will be all we have. Firefox is really the only alternative here.

Yup I really wish uBlock origin was available for Safari 13...

> Safari has only weak protections, basically url-level blocking equivalent to Pihole. Last I checked ublock origin does allow blocking elements by DOM selector.

No, Safari content blockers can target selectors as well.

Yup, the only problem is the limit on the number of filters, which many people think is way too small.

Oh wow, my bad.

Still, I’m not a fan—I don’t trust apple to be a good judge of behavior here.

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