Matisyahu's Blog

Well, after a year of using a Nothing Phone 1 I have decided to move back to using an iPhone and part of that change I have switched carriers to One NZ (formally Vodafone NZ) due to receiving a discount. Long story short I am happy to go back to being 100% in the ecosystem in particular the benefits that come from using iMessage since I prefer using that over WhatsApp with my mum having both installed on her iPhone. I’ve organised an Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max in Natural Titanium colour but when it comes to the case I have to order it online direct from Snakehive (I chose the plum colour). Looking forward to that arriving in 3-5 days so in the mean time I’ll be keeping it at home until the case arrives next week. When I get it I’m going to have a few days of fun getting used to all the new features along with getting back into knowing where everything is in iOS after using Android for over a year.

Part of this move back to the iPhone also means moving back to iCloud and using Safari – there are such a small list of websites I visit that require content blocking (because of obnoxious ads) that I have Firefox installed but even so I’m looking for alternatives. The problem with content blockers is even if you add a website to the allow list you end up getting unexpected behaviour – YouTube rendering is all mucked up which makes me wonder whether I have to add not only YouTube.com to the allow list but all those domain names where YouTube pull in resources from other servers (I assumed that if you add YouTube.com to the allow list that it allows all the connections and leaves the website rendering untouched).