Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe".
EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted by things like:
- hiding the full url by default
- force hiding the full url on certain ($) search engine sites
- force injecting 'client=safari' into my urls for ($)
- {google, yahoo, bing, duckduckgo, ecosia}
- inability to specify custom search engines and their urls
I don't really care what engine is used. Bad javascript between sites raises the noise floor above browser/engine speed differences, and ads and trackers do the same wrt site functionality.
I want Safari for the OS integrations and cleanliness. I need Firefox for manifest v2 and UI customization.
I was one of the main people that tried to port uBO Lite to Safari. uBO isn't possible to port because Safari doesn't support the relevant APIs. uBO Lite is also not possible, despite supporting _most_ of the APIs (IIRC), the ones that are essential for a MVP aren't available on Safari. With that said though, it's possible to use Apple's Safari-specific API to build an ad blocker for Safari that might actually be better than uBO Lite.
uBO isn't just about ads, and the mechanisms Stopthemadness uses should be readily available to me without having to install an app-store blessed plugin, for monies.
Hackers are really something else... Would it sound normal to you if somebody started demanding things that "should be readily available to me" as a response to advice on how to solve a problem. Nobody here owes you anything, so try acting polite if you actually want something that you don't have. Unless you are actually the chairman of the central committee, in which case I apologize for the transgression, comrade.
Are you the chairman of the committee on who is allowed to make demands? Because it sounds like you're trying to demand that other people stop doing so.
Even as an Apple fanboy, this is my least favorite part of the ecosystem. It’s so blatantly anticompetitive and obvious that this is a list of search engines that pay Apple money. (Actually, it’s just Google + 4 re-skinned Bing engines).
This needs to be customizable to include any website with a ?q= parameter, like Firefox does with custom search engines.
It should honestly be an anti-trust issue that this is not possible now.
EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted by things like:
- hiding the full url by default
- force hiding the full url on certain ($) search engine sites
- force injecting 'client=safari' into my urls for ($)
- {google, yahoo, bing, duckduckgo, ecosia}
- inability to specify custom search engines and their urls
- removal of RSS reader (still salty)