uBlock-Safari
interop
uBlock-Safari | interop | |
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45 | 15 | |
2,752 | 243 | |
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0.0 | 7.0 | |
over 3 years ago | 9 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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uBlock-Safari
- Any way at all to run Ublock origin on any browser for an iPhone?
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uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
You are mistaken. Safari removed the APIs necessary for an uBlock port (there used to be one), see https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158.
Injecting code via Web Extensions is too late for reliable blocking - by then, either the malicious JS you are trying to defuse has already ran (if it wasn't blocked declaratively), or if it hasn't, then the rest of the page's JS depending on it has already exploded and "fixing" it after the fact (by substituting a neutered shim via Web Extensions) doesn't fix the rest of the page.
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uBlock Origin 1.49.2 Available as Thunderbird Add-On
It has been there but won't ever be again: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
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Are there any updates on Safari support?
Better to fork it and maintain as another project, like previous ublock's project on safari: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari
- Firefox is the last bastion of pirate ad-free hope. Can Mozilla hold out?
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The Triumph of Safari - 2022 was a transformative year for Apple’s browser
Brilliant move not supporting normal Webextensions though. https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
- Apple Safari browser plugin/extension architecture.
- Is Adguard pro a good safari extension?
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DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
Looks like the answer is no, Safari is not supported.
> ..as of 2022, uBlock Origin’s extension is available for several of the most widely used browsers, including: Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Opera, Firefox and all Safari releases prior to 13.
https://ublockorigin.com/
Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin (and other blockers) for Safari - https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
Apparently, the only WebKit-based browser that can run uBO is Orion browser (beta, Mac only).
https://browser.kagi.com/
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How can one stop pop up tabs on the website Movies2Watch?
You probably can't. Safari crippled adblockers a while back. Here's a longer explanation from the developers of the best blocking extension.
interop
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Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format
There is popular demand (including from Adobe https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#iss... ), which is arguably evidence against (2).
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AV1 video codec gains broader hardware support
Microsoft Edge does support AV1, but weirdly only through a Microsoft Store extension [1], even though Chrome has support built-in. This actually really sucks because in practice hardly any normal consumers would bother to install a strangely named extension, and so web developers have to assume it's largely unsupported in Edge. Safari ties support to a hardware decoder, which I suppose is understandable to avoid accidental battery drain from using a software codec, and means eventually in some year's time support can generally be relied upon when enough new hardware is in use. But that won't happen with Edge as things stand!
I think it's high time the web had a single audio and video codec choice that was widely supported, which is why I've proposed support for AV1 and Opus for the Interop 2024 effort [2] [3].
[1] https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/av1-video-extension/9MVZQV...
[2] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/485
[3] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/484
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Adobe proposes JPEG XL for interop web platform tests
This is the comment to read:
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#iss...
It got me drooling for JPEG XL like I never did for WebP or HEIC.
- JPEG XL Proposed for Interop 2024
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InterOp - what can we actually expect this year?
The Interop group describe this focus area as: "enable testing for font stack capabilities and enable additional expressiveness with vector color fonts. (Font feature detection and palettes)".
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What new CSS and JavaScript features can we expect soon? Or is it all unexpected?
I would say that overall InterOp 2022 went well, they completed most of what they planned to do. Of the 15 focus areas, 13 focus areas had an InterOp score of over 80%.
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Improvements that CSS could use in 2023
Interop 2023 is under development, the project timeline states that a public announcement will be made this week. 🤞
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Pluralistic: Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices (13 Dec 2022)
https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#ios-saf...
And
https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/#evidenc...
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The number one issue for building native like apps is this https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/84
It has been buggy for as long as I can remember and never been fixed.
Not to mention the 10 years of issues with indexeddb or the issues with WebRTC.
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Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security
Open Web Advocacy has been very clear that they want competition on iOS, not Chrome specifically. The reason being that the absence of competition is currently allowing Apple to deteriorate the web experience on iOS, preventing the web and web apps from competing with native apps. Their objective is to lift these artificial limitations imposed by Apple and free the web.
OWA members have actually been actively reporting WebKit bugs and interacting with the Safari team to help prioritise features and bug fixes on Twitter and elsewhere, showing the goal is to improve the overall web experience on iOS, not let Chrome to become dominant. Here is one of their detailed bug report: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022/issues/84.
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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice
Container Queries and Subgrid are only available in Safari Technology Preview, not stable, and Firefox has actually been supporting Subgrid for more than 2 years. Because CQ is not supported by either Chrome of Firefox, it will be at least 2 years before we can start actually using it.
It would have been much wiser for Safari to catch up on the dozens of features they don't support that both Chrome and Firefox do, or to focus on bug fixes for the most basic features that's been broken for years. Instead, they chose to ship shiny new ones to try and convince both regulators (from the EU, UK, US, etc) and web developers that they are leading the way in feature adoption. Unfortunately this seems to be working to some extent in the web devs community. Regulators are unlikely to fall for it though.
Here is the 7 years old scrolling bug I'm referring to, which prevents any decent implementation of modals in Safari on iOS: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022/issues/84
Here you can see that Safari has 5 times more API failures (representative of both missing features and bugs) than Chrome, and 3 times more than Firefox: https://wpt.fyi/
What are some alternatives?
vimium - The hacker's browser.
totally-not-spyware - webkit; but pwned
webextension-polyfill - A lightweight polyfill library for Promise-based WebExtension APIs in Chrome
UrlChecker - Android app by TrianguloY: URLCheck
firefox-ios - Firefox for iOS
construct-stylesheets - API for constructing CSS stylesheet objects
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
standards-positions - WebKit's positions on emerging web specifications
ghostery-extension - Ghostery Browser Extension for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge and Safari
postcss-nesting - Nest style rules inside each other
Retroactive - Retroactive only receives limited support. Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, and macOS Catalina. Xcode 11.7 on macOS Mojave. Final Cut Pro 7, Logic Pro 9, and iWork ’09 on macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra.
web-bugs - A place to report bugs on websites.