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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 4 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.776s | source
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al_borland ◴[12 Jul 25 20:51 UTC] No.44545060[source]▶
Even if bigs exists to work around what Google is doing, that isn’t the right way forward. If people don’t agree with Google move, the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome (and all Chromium browsers). Hit them where it hurts and take away their monopoly over the future direction of the web.
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high_priest ◴[12 Jul 25 20:58 UTC] No.44545103[source]▶
Its not happening
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Etheryte ◴[12 Jul 25 21:16 UTC] No.44545238[source]▶
I don't know, I switched to Safari and it was painful for like two hours and then I stopped thinking about it. The only thing I somewhat miss is the built-in page translate, but I don't need it often enough to be bothered much.
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Fire-Dragon-DoL ◴[12 Jul 25 21:18 UTC] No.44545267[source]▶
I find switching from chrome to safari essentially doing nothing. If you switched to a non-big-company owned browser, it would make sense but Apple has plenty of lock in which is as bad as chrome lock in.
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fny ◴[12 Jul 25 21:23 UTC] No.44545301[source]▶
I'm a huge fan of Orion by Kagi: you should have a look! It's a little rough around the edges but the extension support on iOS is amazing.
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const_cast ◴[12 Jul 25 21:51 UTC] No.44545494[source]▶
Orion is the only viable option on iOS IMO. The fact that, to this day, Safari has no way to block ads on iOS means it's just awful. Before Orion, I avoided using my web browser like the plague, because the experience was just bad.

Now I'm on Android, and Ironfox is pretty good and Firefox is also available. The browser story on Android is leaps and bounds ahead of iOS.

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tech234a ◴[12 Jul 25 22:01 UTC] No.44545560[source]▶
Actually there are several adblockers available for Safari on iOS; the functionality was introduced in 2015. Adblock Plus and Adguard are some of the larger extensions available, and now uBlock Origin Lite is now being beta tested for Safari on iOS.
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1. ndiddy ◴[12 Jul 25 23:00 UTC] No.44545930[source]▶
I find the "switch to Safari" talk amusing because the adblockers available for Safari are functionally equivalent to the MV3 API that everyone's complaining about. The problem with the "static list of content to block" approach that Safari and MV3 use is that you can't trick the site into thinking that ads have been loaded when they haven't, like MV2 allows via Javascript injection. The effect of this is that you'll run into a lot of "disable your ad blocker to continue" pop-ups when using an adblocker with Safari, while you won't see them at all when using an adblocker with Firefox.
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2. lapcat ◴[12 Jul 25 23:45 UTC] No.44546209[source]▶
A Safari content blocker can be combined with an MV2 Safari extension in one app for JavaScript injection.
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3. ndiddy ◴[13 Jul 25 14:01 UTC] No.44550522[source]▶
Thank you for the correction, it looks like Adguard uses this approach.
4. carlosjobim ◴[14 Jul 25 00:15 UTC] No.44555045[source]▶
I never see these popups in Safari, so I think theory and practice is not the same.