Hay, just wondering what is everyone using for Safari adblocking nowadays?
I have been using Ublock Origin through-out Mojave, but now it is not working anymore. I switched to chrome to keep using uBlock Origin, and at the same time picked up AdGuard for Safari for free, but it is impacting Safari so much that some websites will consume more than 4.6 GB of RAM just by itself. The Content Blocker systems are so much less optimized than the previous API models. I am thinking about ditching Safari on macOS because now I think about it again, it has little advantage over Chrome on macOS now, and Google services like YouTube are more optimized in Chrome as well. Handoff works in Chrome as well and bookmarks sync between two browsers too. I will keep on using Safari on iOS and iPadOS for now, as network-level adblocking using "WebBlock" is hyper-effective on iOS-based systems.
About privacy, I have G Suite anyway, no ads on most Google services other than things like YouTube and there is no reading of my email for ads or whatever. I see that Chrome now supports 3rd-party Cookie blocking and Cookie whitelisting now. That's pretty much the same as what Safari has introduced since 2016-ish. For search privacy, I am always logged-in to Google and Google will always know what the heck I am searching for anyway. I set the retention period to 180 days, I allow Google services to hold my data because I just can't stand how stupid Google is without my data. YouTube would be irrelevant to me and searches of important days, for example, would direct me to the calendar of a different school with similar short names. Ads would show up in French and German when I use a VPN etc.
Any rescue ideas for Safari desktop? If not, time to say bye?
I have been using Ublock Origin through-out Mojave, but now it is not working anymore. I switched to chrome to keep using uBlock Origin, and at the same time picked up AdGuard for Safari for free, but it is impacting Safari so much that some websites will consume more than 4.6 GB of RAM just by itself. The Content Blocker systems are so much less optimized than the previous API models. I am thinking about ditching Safari on macOS because now I think about it again, it has little advantage over Chrome on macOS now, and Google services like YouTube are more optimized in Chrome as well. Handoff works in Chrome as well and bookmarks sync between two browsers too. I will keep on using Safari on iOS and iPadOS for now, as network-level adblocking using "WebBlock" is hyper-effective on iOS-based systems.
About privacy, I have G Suite anyway, no ads on most Google services other than things like YouTube and there is no reading of my email for ads or whatever. I see that Chrome now supports 3rd-party Cookie blocking and Cookie whitelisting now. That's pretty much the same as what Safari has introduced since 2016-ish. For search privacy, I am always logged-in to Google and Google will always know what the heck I am searching for anyway. I set the retention period to 180 days, I allow Google services to hold my data because I just can't stand how stupid Google is without my data. YouTube would be irrelevant to me and searches of important days, for example, would direct me to the calendar of a different school with similar short names. Ads would show up in French and German when I use a VPN etc.
Any rescue ideas for Safari desktop? If not, time to say bye?
