iOS Safari has supported declarative content blocking extensions since iOS 9 in 2015 and a full extension API since iOS 15 released about two years ago.
uBlock doesn't exist for iOS because it is made impossible by apple, their extension API is not a "full" API.
Precompiled declarative blocking is more performant and power efficient than running a content script in a JS VM at page load, which matters on a CPU and battery constrained device.
I was responding to a comment claiming that mobile Safari doesn’t support add-ons. Which is simply not true!
Check the `@@` filters for `ios` here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters...
Adguard's default settings already do not include many tracking connections blocking filters, due to the lack of Safari's API for redirecting to neutered sources which could easily lead to breakages / anti-adblock.
In terms of privacy-protection, Safari is one of the worst.
Yes, see Twitter.
I have AdGuard installed on iOS and I do see ads. I do not see them when opening on Firefox desktop with uBlock Origin. If I disable uBlock then I do see them like on Safari.
As I said, precompiled declarative blocking only works for the weakest of blatant ads. Of course it's "more performant and power efficient" because it only runs on the bare HTTP requests. That's not what I want.
> I was responding to a comment claiming that mobile Safari doesn’t support add-ons. Which is simply not true!
Fair enough. But personally I don't count Safari's extensions as real extension, just like I don't count Firefox' previous approach of a handful of "blessed" extensions for Android as real extensions.
Safari content blockers aside, Safari web extensions are capable of blocking Twitter ads.
There may be other extensions, I don't know. In any case, the technical capability of the API is there.
It's a pain in the arse and certainly doesn't count as 'released' by any means but it's been at least just about possible for a while.
Mozilla refuses to address how having no adblock is a security risk, so I have moved all my friends and family over to iOS Brave.
Firefox built its own demise by having a bizarre focus on woke stuff instead of features that users direly need.
Which sure is nice to combat some malware but not really MY problem.
It also coincidentally happens to also rule out ANY browser engines. Firefox and Chrome can only use the provided webkit "WebView" component. Apple has effectively crippled Browsers on iOS to Safari, or a worse re-skinned version of Safari.
You are so insistent that the feature built in primarily because the platform you've chosen has limited your ability to do what literally every other platform can do. I know there are some benefits privacy wise to the Apple ecosystem but it appears that Apple continues to "refuse to address" the need for actual browsers other than safari on iPhone rather than skins on top of Webkit.
So neither party is doing what you please but you gave hundreds to thousands of dollars to one and nothing to the other so perhaps go ask the fellow who has all of your money if they can implement the feature.
Alternatively wait for some combination of law and or technology to work around Apple.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/googles_chromium_ios/...
They both use the same selectable filter lists, so I notice barely if any difference.
I'll also scuttle Cookiebro once Brave's cookie auto-delete moves out of beta.
Less extensions means less attack surface.
Here is an example of Brave's filtering falling short: http://0x0.st/H_YB.jpg
Do you see that wide gray box that says "Youtube Featured, RELEASED this week!" I consider that an ad for trashy commercial popculture slop, I hate it and want it gone. How do I remove it with Brave's blocker? I have ad blocking turned up to aggressive but it's still there. I can't figure out how to create a new cosmetic filter, Youtube is unusable to me without this. If I scroll down further I see similar boxes for "Trending", "Shorts", and "Celebrate World's Indigenous People's Day." All of this needs to go; in Firefox I don't see any of it because, with ublock origin, I created a cosmetic filter for ytd-rich-section-renderer. "Rich section" indeed...
Anyway, I didn't downvote your above comment, which is now flagged as well. Near as I can figure the "modern godwin" accusation leveled against you is either because you mentioned brave (is Eich claimed to be a nazi now?) or because you said Mozilla is being woke. Either way, a very stupid reaction to your inoffensive comment. This place is becoming orange reddit.
I have literally never seen this box. Something might be wrong with your config, either manually or due to Brave. Could be worth it to hit up Brave on their Github.
For what its worth, I was an uMatrix user in the past, but I got tired of the churn of constant tiny breakage (even if my regular set of sites was beautifully set up after a while). I know very well the ins and outs of blocking.
I did a trial run for a few weeks, alternating between uBlock and Brave blocking, and the difference was so unnoticeable that I just went cold turkey.
Brave has honestly been on a roll with their built-in security features:
- HTTPS upgrading
- configurable adblock
- fingerprinting protection
- WebRTC protection
- (soon) port-scanning protection, the first browser to do so
- (soon) cookie auto-deleting
> Anyway, I didn't downvote your above comment, which is now flagged as well. Near as I can figure the "modern godwin" accusation leveled against you is either because you mentioned brave (is Eich claimed to be a nazi now?) or because you said Mozilla is being woke. Either way, a very stupid reaction to your inoffensive comment. This place is becoming orange reddit.
Thanks for saying so! And yep. The funny thing is, all these dogmatic people do is strengthen the opinion of regular tech users like me. The more vindictive they get, the harder I try to steer away more and more people from Firefox.
Funnily enough its the opposite with Thunderbird. Since they had their split, their management is a lot more neutral and tech-focused and thus I try to get as many people back on that train as possible. I've even donated to Thunderbird, as those donations are specifically earmarked for Thunderbird only.
That's misinformation. It may not be as good as ublock origin (I don't know) but in my experience it removes practically everything.