Comment by ycombinatrix
14 hours ago
Firefox does already have some tracker blocking built in, though it would be fantastic to import arbitrary filter lists.
Chrome & Safari are operated by advertising/surveillance companies, so no dice there.
14 hours ago
Firefox does already have some tracker blocking built in, though it would be fantastic to import arbitrary filter lists.
Chrome & Safari are operated by advertising/surveillance companies, so no dice there.
Safari (desktop and mobile) also has tracker blocking built in. "Prevent cross-site tracking" and "Hide IP address from trackers" are two settings it has; I think the first is checked by default, I don't remember about the other.
In the DevTools network pane, it shows requests to known trackers, like Google Tag Manager, being blocked.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602
Try using Amazon in Safari sometime (in Lockdown Mode, no less): non-stop ads (some which flash), sponsored results dominating the first page of search, random Dufus pop-ups forcing AI. You can hide "distracting" elements but they just appear again later. Safari is not a user-friendly browser.
Safari is my default browser. I don't know what "Dufus" means, I don't recall any A.I. references. On Amazon, it's all first-party stuff, what browser blocks that natively? It seems like you're comparing using Safari without an ad blocker to a different browser with an ad blocker.
I know the most popular ad blocking extensions don't make a Safari version but there are ad blockers for Safari.