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Comment by rckt

7 months ago

I'm a long-time user of Wipr. Does the job perfectly.

Generally it works well, but what's particularly annoying is that it hides cookie walls, resulting in non-functional websites until I disable content blockers, close the dialog and re-enable them. Not sure if uBlock does any better, though.

  • Ghostery does the same, but has more fine-grained per-website controls. You can for example turn off just the consent-popup-blocker function for a website while keeping the anti-tracking ad-blocking functions.

  • Use a bookmarklet to sweep sticky elements for those situation. Not ideal, but works fine.

    • Use Safari’s own built-in “Hide Distracting Items”. It’s also pretty good at hiding the few remaining “disable your ad blocker to continue” popups Wipr doesn’t yet catch.

  • This is my only complaint. Most of the websites work fine, but others get stuck. I don’t know if Wipr 2 solved the issue.

    • We occasionally have this with the actual full uBlock Origin on Firefox as well.

      I don't think there's a general solution for this issue. Content blockers need to provide a workaround for each situation, if at all possible.

      At least it's possible to contribute to uBlock Origin's filters.