Reap what you sow

i love ublock origin and have used it for years. i recently migrated to macos and was disappointed to find that ublock origin doesn’t work with safari.

what’s the best ad-blocking option for safari on macos?

The first thing that came to mind was "switch to Firefox". Other than that, I have nothing to recommend.

I use Firefox with uBlock Origin on the Mac and it works great, but for Safari the best option I've found is AdGuard (https://adguard.com). However, it is nowhere near as effective as uBlock Origin since Safari did the Manifest V3 thing.

> since Safari did the Manifest V3 thing.

More accurately, Safari removed support for webRequest BlockingResponse in 2019. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

This was unrelated to Manifest V3, and in fact Safari has not deprecated Manifest V2. Manifest V3 does remove support for webRequest BlockingResponse in Chrome, but I believe not in Firefox.

I currently use 1blocker(paid version) and it seems to be working pretty well compared to Firefox with ublock. I use it both on iOS and macOS.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-ad-blocker/id13655310...

It works great, but doesn't work against YouTube's anti-adblock yet.

I heard good things about Wipr (paid product) but don't use it myself on OSX.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wipr/id1320666476?mt=12

1Blocker already mentioned, but it is is absolutely fantastic.

The iOS version also blocks in-app trackers (in other apps, outside of Safari) and YouTube app ads via its firewall feature.

There's a webkit based browser called Orion that I've been trying out that supports chrome extensions. That's the closest thing I think.

Orion has issues loading uBlock Origin on new tabs, see: https://orionfeedback.org/d/718-ublock-origin-doesnt-work-so...

Why not just use Firefox? It's available on macOS.

Firefox has poor battery life on macos.

That is a thing of distant past. It runs beautifully natively on M1/M2 chips and has no noticeable difference in power consumption vs Safari.

Not the case anymore, even on pre-M1 Macs.

But then again we have to buy apple anyhow

Little Snitch, a proprietary firewall, subscribed to some ad blocking lists can block surveillance system-wide

comparing to self hosted pi-hole, this would allow you to take advantage of ad and other content blocking outside of your home wifi.

Use Wireguard and you can use your home PiHole setup anywhere.

You could host pihole on a free-tier AWS or other cloud provider instance and wouldn't need worry about startup latency of something like Workers or Lambda.

On my pi-hole, I also host pi-vpn (Wireguard): https://www.pivpn.io/

This is a good reason and exactly what I get out of using Tailscale.

I saw that post too and immediately ordered the iFlash Solo adapter. Coincidentally I had just run across an iPod video in a drawer that wouldn't boot up... it was about a 20 minute project to replace the hard disk with the adapter and a big SD card, and the iPod is working great now!

May I also recommend this excellent video[1] from Hamilton made in 1949 that thoroughly explains how mechanical watches work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0_vOw6eCc

Roundcube has come a long way, and they just released a huge update with a responsive design that works great on desktop and mobile!

Should you host your own email server? Yes! It’s a really fun learning project. There are tons of resources out there to make it do-able, so go for it!

Patreon sends a 1099-K if you get more than $20K in a year.

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/207099566-Will...

Spam detection on my personal email server took a huge leap forward when I got Spamassassin correctly configured to use the DNS blocklists (URIBL, etc.). I had to set up a local DNS server because the blocklists weren't responding to requests coming via my hosting provider's DNS, and the scores had to be tweaked over a few weeks, but now it's working great. The content rules like "hi my dear", "request for money", and "all caps" are still in there, but the blocklists do the heavy lifting.

Personally I have to be careful of this....it’s easy for me to focus so much on the solution that the problem is never even clearly articulated to the developers (who may have a better solution that I came up with once they grasp the problem).

I ran across an interesting essay on Medium recently on this topic, advocating a new approach to roadmaps focused on the problems: the problem roadmap. Instead of saying what new features the team will be working on in the future, map out what problems they’ll be working on.