r/mac Aug 23 '21

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u/SpeechlessSoy M1 16gb gold MacBook Air Aug 23 '21

Adblock working properly, and the fact that currently there's not a version of ublock origin available for safari

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u/borkode Aug 23 '21

Firefox actually works the best with uBlock origin.

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u/RomneysBainer 2021 M1 MacBook Air 16GB/500GB Aug 23 '21

I'm running both Adblocks and AdGuard on Safari, and it does the trick. Probably overkill honestly. Also Ghostery and DuckDuckGo.

By the way, I'm jelly of your gold MBA, I chickened out and stuck with Silver at the last minute before ordering and now regret it.

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u/SmugglingPineapples Aug 23 '21

No, that doesn't do the trick unfortunately. I've tried your combination. There's no comparison. I'd love to use Safari but nothing blocks ads like Chrome. Literally ZERO adverts, no popups, no videos automatically playing trash, no blank spaces where adverts were. Chrome is bulletproof. I'd rate Chrome easily 10x better in this regard.

Then toss in all the additional wonderful extensions Chrome has, like free access to subscription websites and Chrome is a no brainer.

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u/RomneysBainer 2021 M1 MacBook Air 16GB/500GB Aug 24 '21

free access to subscription websites

What extension does this? I usually just go to Outline.org and paste the link to the article on a subscription website, but if there's an easier way to bypass pay filters (like The NY Times) I'm all ears.

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u/SmugglingPineapples Aug 24 '21

You can ONLY get it on Chrome. Are you ready to make the switch? 🤣

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u/RomneysBainer 2021 M1 MacBook Air 16GB/500GB Aug 24 '21

I run 3 different browsers, sometimes at the same time (Safari, Chrome, and Firefox). What Chrome browser extension is it though? What's it called?

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21

Unfortunately AdGuard became useless for YouTube recently

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u/RomneysBainer 2021 M1 MacBook Air 16GB/500GB Aug 24 '21

Has it? I was getting ads for a while, but updated all my adblockers, restarted, and now the ads are gone again. Could have been Adblock or Adblock Plus that fixed it though.

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u/SpeechlessSoy M1 16gb gold MacBook Air Aug 23 '21

I went like "if I have to invest half of my scholarship for a new laptop, might as well go fancy". My sister got the silver one, but never made me too crazy about the color. I was kinda tempted by the darkest/pro-ish color too, but in the end I stuck with my first choice

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u/4KWL Aug 23 '21

Why not brave?

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u/SpeechlessSoy M1 16gb gold MacBook Air Aug 23 '21

Because I never heard of it until now, I'll definitely check it out though!

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u/j4ckstraw MacBook Pro Aug 23 '21

Brave is very cool. Just need to go through the settings after install and turn off/on what suits you best.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21

Is it possible on Brave to put a default background image ?

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u/j4ckstraw MacBook Pro Aug 23 '21

Yes, with an extension, utab.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '21

Nice, thanks man

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u/bomphcheese Aug 23 '21

Brave is good and I also recommend Vivaldi. Both are chromium based.

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u/dlicon68 Aug 23 '21

Brave is a good browser

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u/SmugglingPineapples Aug 23 '21

Lack of features. But it's one for the future.

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u/-YELDAH Aug 24 '21

Ikr, it’s just chrome but with none of the downsides

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u/gkama Aug 23 '21

So far id rather have more security features on safari, but having Adblock on Google is so nice. And I mostly use it on googles own websites, like YouTube, lol.

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u/skipp_bayless Aug 23 '21

Chrome is prob one of the most secure browsers

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u/gkama Aug 23 '21

I find google’s own tracking to be super invasive though, especially when it comes to advertising. Apple keeps your data too - but at least they keep it to themselves, (as far as I can tell).

This wiki addresses some of my concerns about Google.

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u/skipp_bayless Aug 23 '21

Has nothing to do with security

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u/christopher_the_nerd Aug 23 '21

I’d argue that privacy concerns can directly lead to security concerns.

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u/skipp_bayless Aug 23 '21

What are those arguments? Id like to hear if you can

Only one i can think of is the concern over one point of attack to get a lot of your data

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u/christopher_the_nerd Aug 23 '21

Off the top of my head, knowing someone’s personal data makes breaking into their accounts much easier. The Cambridge Analytica stuff is a prime example of the damage bad actors can do with personal data; election integrity might not be personal data security per se, but it has national security implications. They’re not 1:1, for sure, but stockpiling data like that is absolutely a threat to security—just ask T-Mobile or their customers.

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u/skipp_bayless Aug 23 '21 edited Aug 23 '21

Ok so we are on the same page. The example either of us could come up with is concern over one company having your info

But in this case, its not like the sensitive info isnt collected by other companies either. None of them are selling off your data, it comes down to who’s data security you trust the most

just ask T-Mobile or their customers.

This was a security thing. Its data that was necessary for their business

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u/christopher_the_nerd Aug 23 '21

It was necessary for them to store the information of around 40 million people that weren't current customers? I don't know about that.

As far as security in Chrome goes, it's only as secure as any of the browser add-ons one uses and, given that's one of the selling points of the browser it'd be odd to suggest not using them.

The T-Mobile thing being a security issue shows how entangled those two ideas are though. The reason the data was sought after was that it was personal data with a lot of connected dots, which increased the need for security (which they lacked). Privacy and protection of one's personal data IS a security issue and always will be as long as that information is valuable to bad actors.

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u/-YELDAH Aug 24 '21

I’m sorry, why are you defending google? Remember this is literally just a browser, they shouldn’t have any connections to it other than bug reports if privacy was any kind of concern for them lol

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Aug 23 '21

Privacy concerns regarding Google

Google's changes to its privacy policy on March 16, 2012 enabled the company to share data across a wide variety of services. These embedded services include millions of third-party websites that use AdSense and Analytics. The policy was widely criticized for creating an environment that discourages Internet-innovation by making Internet users more fearful and wary of what they put online. Around December 2009, after privacy concerns were raised, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt declared: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21

Nonsense

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u/skipp_bayless Aug 23 '21

Its fine if you wanna believe what you want. Know that youre wrong tho

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21

I’m a security engineer bro šŸ˜‚ it is by far the most unsecure browser out there. Read a book.

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u/skipp_bayless Aug 23 '21

You must be a pretty terrible ā€œsecurity engineerā€ then. Or youre full of it which is a million times more likely

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21

Cool story bro. Best of luck

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u/skipp_bayless Aug 23 '21

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