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by SomeOtherThrow 2446 days ago
Safari has only weak protections, basically url-level blocking equivalent to Pihole. Last I checked ublock origin does allow blocking elements by DOM selector.

One day ads will start being plexed with content over websockets and the DOM-level protections will be all we have. Firefox is really the only alternative here.

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> Safari has only weak protections, basically url-level blocking equivalent to Pihole. Last I checked ublock origin does allow blocking elements by DOM selector.

No, Safari content blockers can target selectors as well.

Oh wow, my bad.

Still, I’m not a fan—I don’t trust apple to be a good judge of behavior here.

Yup, the only problem is the limit on the number of filters, which many people think is way too small.
Yup I really wish uBlock origin was available for Safari 13...