Matisyahu's Blog

Ever since moving back to iOS for my Phone I’ve been sticking with Safari but I’ve been getting annoyed with AdGuard Safari Extension lack of forward momentum when it comes to development – it feels as AdGuard for Safari is considered an afterthought when it comes to addressing content blocking not always working consistently. For a while I was able to get it to work a but better than before by putting allowed/blocked websites into the ‘User Rules’ area and that worked for a while but the websites I frequent I find are letting through annoying pops and ads where as in the past they were blocked – I updated my filters then ran an adblock tester (link) and it appears that under ‘Cosmetic Filter’ the option ‘Dynamic Ad’ isn’t being blocked but when I run it on Firefox running uBlock Origin it provides 100% blocking in the test.

I’ve installed Firefox 125.0.3 (it isn’t available through the website but it is available through their direct download on ftp.mozilla.org) on my Mac and it is incredibly fast – memory usage is down, CPU utilisation is down, JavaScript and Web Assembly is a lot faster too. Reddit uses a lot of JavaScript so you should find that is a lot more responsive particularly if you like to open up posts in separate tabs rather the current website layers way in which posts are loaded. I haven’t experienced any other issues a the moment so it appears that maybe I’m going to be using Firefox for the long term.

There was an announcement this month that Google was finally launch their competitor to Apple’s ‘Find My’ network (link) (link) which has resulted in the the release date being announced for a Bluetooth tracker compatible with it (link). It’ll be interesting to see how it all works out in the end given that there has been much procrastination by all concerned about finally getting it out the door for the masses to be able to purchase. Sure, one could purchase the Bluetooth tracker that used the OEMs custom application but like many I prefer to make use of the ecosystem that is already being provided by Google and Apple.