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Actually certain functionalities necessary for uBlock origin are still blocked, so the port is not possible as of yet: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/hdz0bo/will_u...

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> not possible as of yet

Never. The Safari team already (wrongly) feels that their Safari-specific "content blocker" API is adequate, and moreover, Google Chrome has announced the deprecation of the webRequest blocking API used by uBlock Origin, so it almost certainly won't be ported to Safari, and it's an open question how long uBlock Origin will even last on Chrome in the future.

It’s funny that you call it inadequate while a bunch of developers make very useful products based around it.

Why is that funny? The point is that they're less effective at blocking than uBlock Origin, not that they're useless.

To claim something is not adequate is to claim it can’t do the job.

Ad/tracker blockers based on Apples content blocker framework absolutely do work.

So when I said funny, I meant funny as in, “this meat smells funny”.

This is unhelpful quibbling over the semantics of one word. You know what I meant. Everyone knows what I meant. I even explained in more detail what I meant. You're also wrong about the word, but I'm not going to bother arguing that here.

Please refrain from writing "this meat smells funny" comments on HN. You could go around commenting on typos too, which happen all the time, but that's not at all helpful.

Definition of adequate 1 : sufficient for a specific need or requirement adequate time an amount of money adequate to supply their needs also : good enough : of a quality that is good or acceptable a machine that does an adequate job : of a quality that is acceptable but not better than acceptable Her first performance was merely adequate.

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