6mo ago

new foss adblocker for safari (macOS, ipadOS, iOS)

github.com GitHub - WebShieldApp/WebShield: A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari designed to be performant, efficient, and effective.

A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari designed to be performant, efficient, and effective. - WebShieldApp/WebShield

I just wanted to share with you the work of this developer on GitHub, I am a macOS and iOS user and I can't wait to use this new FOSS adblocker (there are no others on macOS).

I'm not a computer scientist and I don't have expertise but I try to help by spreading the spread, maybe someone can help or share it again!

Thank you all! P.S. I'm not the developer so I can't answer any question

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I don't know the reason why you are using MacOS and iOS but you shouldn't
EDIT : I've seen that I got a lot of down vote. This post was not made with the idea of shitting on Apple, it was to say that this ecosystem is "good" only for some usecase, for one in particularly, working. You shouldn't be using a Mac and an iPhone while wanting to be a bit private. And if you do, you are doing a big mistake
- Most professional programmers, graphic artist, and designers I met use MacOS.
  
  Most professional programmers I meet use Linux. A few even scrap MacOS out to install Linux on them.
  
  Sounds like you haven’t met very many professional programmers then.
  
  Professional developer.
  Literally have tux tattooed on my chest.
  I write software that runs on enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL and its babies).
  I will only purchase a MBP to develop on right now, I do not load Linux on it.
  I love linux and for anything other than my primary dev box I run it there, but MacOs being Unix AND having the creature comforts AND the best desktop experience keeps me here.
  I miss i3 BUT not enough
  
  I’m in an extremely similar situation. I’m a professional software developer, but the software I develop is cross platform, but in practice most of our users are on Linux (Ubuntu LTS more specifically), and a smaller contingent of Windows users. Honestly not sure if anyone uses macOS besides the developers, but we ship best-effort builds anyways. Our developers run a mix of macOS, Linux, and Windows. I’ve used all three, and ultimately while macOS isn’t perfect, I’ve decided it’s what I can be most productive with, for the reasons you mentioned. It’s close enough to Linux being Unix-like, homebrew is sorta like having all the up to date packages like arch, except with the comfort that an update will never completely break my system, and the macOS creature comforts are extremely nice to have when I’m doing more office tasks rather than writing or reviewing code. Hardware is head and shoulders above everything else, I can go a full day without a charger. Great community too.
  
  yabai, mayhaps? https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
  disclaimer: I've never used macOS nor a tiling WM disclaimer 2: totally not stalking you
- Was gifted an iPhone 13, been a lifelong android user. Hate to admit how much I love my iPhone. Hate not having my 512gb microSD card full of music but the multi day battery life makes up for it.
  
  Are you saying Android phones can't have multi day battery? Screenshot of the battery usage of my 3 year old POCO phone...
  
  Not at all. But also just wasn’t my experience. My last phone was the lg g9 and had horrid battery. I’ve seen the poco phone before. If I remember doesn’t it have a massive 5000mah battery?
  
  Yup! 5160mAh battery (and 3.5mm jack 😉)
  
  I agree partly with your point of view but a iPhone is still a phone that you cannot really tweak and flash and new rom for example
  
  Most people don’t care about that even a little bit. Back in the day I used to use various custom roms on my android devices, it was awesome. But that was then, I have a job and family now and I can’t just reset my phone on a whim because there’s some cool UI tweak in a new rom. Plus, most of the stuff that made custom roms worthwhile has been integrated into the OS nowadays, so the value add is significantly diminished.
  
  I don't talk about the ui focused rom, but on the private one. Stock iOS and stock android are the same shit, the only reason to change is to use a "degoogled" ROM and iOS won't let you do that easily
  
  I understand where you’re coming from but that’s just not practical for me, even if I had the specific device. For pretty much the same reasons as before. I tried this once in college, not fully degoogled but using microg. I was able to make it work but the experience was pretty awful and I just don’t want to spend my time managing something like that anymore.
  
  Don't know when you try this but today this is pretty simple and after the first setup the experience is seamlessly good, as any other android.
  
  This was like 2018 I think? At this point it’s not really something I’m interested in as I’m not willing to give up creature comforts.
  
  Totally agree. At this point my phone is more of an appliance than a computer. I just need it to do what it is supposed to do and that’s it. I don’t even put games on the phone anymore and am really cognizant of the apps I use.
  Heck I even remover Uber and lift apps if I’m not going to be using them for a while.
  
  I used to think that way too. I hated having all the apps on the main screen and the lack of widgets. Nowadays iOS is better and has lets you customize the main screen a lot more. Most iOS users still have all this apps on the main screen but it’s not a necessity like it used to be.

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