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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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{3}[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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const_cast ◴[12 Jul 25 22:12 UTC] No.44545637{4}[source]▶
I've never used these, but if I had to guess: these probably don't have the same power as full Manifest V2 extensions.

Also names like "Adblock Plus" scare me. I don't want someone I don't trust getting my web activity.

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1. Etheryte ◴[13 Jul 25 14:35 UTC] No.44550742{5}[source]▶
You don't have to guess, they're as capable as MV2 and AdGuard has been around for a long time.
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2. const_cast ◴[14 Jul 25 01:16 UTC] No.44555448[source]▶
A quick Google search reveals AdGuard is only a DNS resolver, so it has the adblocking power of something like a Pi Hole. So... nowhere near as capable. It can't inject JS into webpages to prevent pop ups, which is going to lead to white boxes everywhere. In addition, ads can obfuscate the URL or share domains with non-ad content - so that content won't be blocked with a DNS resolver.

However, the software seems safe. Their privacy policy says they only store websites locally, and never upload them to servers. The app is also open-source.

Ad Block Plus is not privacy respecting. They collect usage data as well as unique device identifiers.