<story><title>Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, and users didn&apos;t say a thing</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-neutered-ad-blockers-in-safari-but-unlike-chrome-users-didnt-say-a-thing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xodice</author><text>Because content blockers are fine for the majority of users, IMO.  Of course there will be power users who are buggered, but things like Wipr on iOS and macOS work just fine for blocking ads.&lt;p&gt;I switched to Wipr on my devices and ads are still blocked, for basic ad blocking it gets the job done easily and quickly.&lt;p&gt;I also did not join in the Chrome bashing as I personally prefer the &amp;quot;security&amp;quot; of content blockers vs. extensions. (Tho, I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bad_user</author><text>Safari&amp;#x27;s content blockers are super easy to circumvent by anti-ad-blocking tech.&lt;p&gt;That many publishers don&amp;#x27;t do that already is a mystery, probably because visitors with ad-blocking are still a minority and publishers don&amp;#x27;t want to piss them off.&lt;p&gt;As a disclaimer I was in a team working on such technology. The hardest to beat is uBlock Origin, being the most capable from a technical perspective. And we left it completely alone, a good strategy for angry users having a last resort solution to migrate to instead of investigating why AdBlock Plus isn&amp;#x27;t working.&lt;p&gt;And also by not having a company behind it, a partnership with uBlock Origin for &amp;quot;acceptable ads&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t possible. Which is why the whole industry, Google included, is scared of it and it&amp;#x27;s no wonder that they&amp;#x27;ve taken steps to kill it in Chrome for desktop ;-)</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, and users didn&apos;t say a thing</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-neutered-ad-blockers-in-safari-but-unlike-chrome-users-didnt-say-a-thing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xodice</author><text>Because content blockers are fine for the majority of users, IMO.  Of course there will be power users who are buggered, but things like Wipr on iOS and macOS work just fine for blocking ads.&lt;p&gt;I switched to Wipr on my devices and ads are still blocked, for basic ad blocking it gets the job done easily and quickly.&lt;p&gt;I also did not join in the Chrome bashing as I personally prefer the &amp;quot;security&amp;quot; of content blockers vs. extensions. (Tho, I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tyingq</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;I also did not join in the Chrome bashing as I personally prefer the &amp;quot;security&amp;quot; of content blockers vs. extensions. (Tho, I trust my goto extension uBlock Origin just fine.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interesting, as the uBlock Origin author is pretty clear that uBlock Origin for chrome will cease to exist if&amp;#x2F;when Chrome implements the manifest v3 changes that make it &amp;quot;Safari like&amp;quot;.</text></comment>