Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve been sick for the last couple of days then add to that the ‘winter blues’ I’m pushing myself forward – it’s difficult not to fall into slump and once in that slump trying to pull oneself out of it. We’ve had some crappy weather and it is difficult to keep being motivated with work but I guess if I keep focused on the end of the year – time off from work, maybe early next year I might go for a holiday to Australia for a couple of days, that’ll keep me focused on something to I am motivated to keep moving forward.

Just reading an article over on Bloomberg (link) When I saw Apple getting into original content I was sceptical regarding the cost vs the amount of money they would bring in directly through subscriptions and indirectly in the form other sales along side subscriptions. I think the big mistake is their failure to buy out TimeWarnerDiscovery (or whatever it is called today) when they had the chance then fold the whole thing into Apple television and bump up the price. They would have gained a massive back catalogue of content including classic movies through to cartoons not to mention the chance of turning CNN around so that the domestic version of CNN would resemble that of their international service aka a serious news channel rather than indulging in something resembling a yelling match.

I’m giving Chrome a go along side Firefox and in my experience so far, uBlock Origin Lite is pretty good when compared to AdGuard which still allows things through that uBlock Origin does a good job stopping – yeah, I could submit a bug report but most of the time it’s like the comic of the suggestion box that is actually just a shredder. I’d be more than happy to pay for an updated and improved AdGuard Safari Extension in much the same way I’ve already bought AdGuard for iOS – AdGuard that addressed the issues I have along with being native code rather than running as an Electron application would make me more than happy to pay for it.

I’ve been following the WECG meeting minutes recently a request for functionality to be added to the scripting API (link) that was put forward by one of the uBlock origin developers – what I hope is that the WECG take on board this (and other requests by content blocking developers) rather than the usual “do the bare minimum and hope the developer gives up” approach that so many involved in the WECG take (see Apple and their half hearted attempt to implement the Webextensions API to bring Safari into compatibility with Firefox and Chrome (just look at the compatibility matrix for the scripting API (link)) or just the general disinterest in actually supporting improvements based on the the minutes written where the Apple appear to want to be doing something other than being at the meeting).