Posted on 09/24/2019 8:06:14 AM PDT by Swordmaker
On the other hand, everyone was busy blasting Google for a similar plan in Chrome.
There's been much said about Google's supposed plans to limit the power of ad blockers in Chrome, but something similar has already happened in Safari, and not that many people have noticed, let alone criticize Apple.
Over the course of the last year and a half, Apple has effectively neutered ad blockers in Safari, something that Google has been heavily criticized all this year.
But unlike Google, Apple never received any flak, and came out of the whole process with a reputation of caring about users' privacy, rather than attempting to "neuter ad blockers." The reasons may be Apple's smaller userbase, the fact that changes rolled out across years instead of months, and the fact that Apple doesn't rely on ads for its profits, meaning there was no ulterior motive behind its ecosystem changes.
APP EXTENSIONS AND CONTENT BLOCKER
For Apple users, it all started a few years back when the company announced App Extensions, a mechanism through which apps could extend their functionality into other apps.
Apple said that App Extensions would work in tandem with Content Blocker, a mechanism introduced in iOS 9, in 2013. Basically, apps or app extensions can use the Content Blocker API tell Safari what to block based on a set of rules before rendering a web page.
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
Baaaaa!
I’ved moved to Brave. I want Google out of business, they are big brother.
Thanks to Freeper BTerclinger for the heads-up on this article.
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I am totally hating the new environment without UBlockPlus.
I’ve moved off of Google’s platforms as well, but I’ve not heard of Brave before. How would you say it compares to Opera or Tor?
I have noticed an increase in pop-over ads on many webpages while seeing fewer on-page ads. This may be a response to the newer pre-rendering blocking the app based blocking Apple and Google both instituted. Google doesn’t block it’s own ads in their Android devices of course.
My adblockers are still working just fine and dandy.
I’ve used Brave since it was in beta.
Best browser I’ve ever used, and that goes back to Netscape.
I’ve never seen that sample alert screen that ZDNet has in the article. . . And so are mine. I think most ad blocker extensions just adapted their extensions to Apple’s new rules to incorporate the new approach to intercept the ads before trying to render the webpage instead of doing it afterwards. That’s likely why we are seeing pop-over ads. I know that on some particular webpages I cannot post a comment until I’ve located all the pop-overs and closed them, even though I can type in the comment window on the page. Irritating at best. Usually it’s a Disqus comment window.
For random poking around the web, Brave is best. Whatever it blocks is something you are better off not seeing. :)
I use AdBlockerPlus on my iphone and Ipad. It blocks some ads, not all. Apple just wants to make sure you experience the internet the way they intend it to be, ads and all.
A big minus on Apple’s part, just part of their ideology of , “We know what’s best for you” overlord mindset. Apple, slightly less evil than google.
Haven’t used opera or tor. But Brave is pretty solid, on par with firefox. Just blocks the crap.
When’s this supposed to have taken effect? My adblocker works flawlessly.
Apple’s respect for your privacy is lightyears ahead of Google.
Wipr still working for me. My biggest current complaint is Bing.com aggregating sports news. Many, many video thumbnail links to NBC Sports website, so can take a long time to download and format the page, with my uber-slow inter web connection.
Over the last year and a half. . .
That’s why I called this a FUD (Fear, Uncertinty, and Doubt) article. . .
Please let me share as someone who has tried them all including Brave, right now the most secure set up is Firefox with the “Ghostery” ad blocker and the “NoScript” script blocker. But... It requires some work and effort on the user’s part now and then to make some things render or play. I have no problem needing to turn on one of 35 blocked scripts to watch a certain video or view an image. This means ALL are being blocked up front and I can allow just the individual scripts as needed if I truly “need” to see it.
When it comes to website trackers, it is not the ads that are the problem, it is the “scripts” they impose on you. These are the things that ad blockers do not see and catch you need to worry about.
For instance... When you go to Youtube even as a guest not logged in, the ads might be blocked by your adblocker. But the scripts that turn on and access your Location, Camera, and Microphone are still in operation without your knowledge. Only a good script blocker can catch these and allow you to make sure they are actually OFF.
And I don’t want to use Chrome or Firefox. Any other suggestions? Have you tried Brave?
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