Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve been giving AdGuard 5.0.138 a try since it’s release and it has finally addressed a long standing problem – for example, one of the sites I use there is a search box, you click on the search box to put the cursor and what happens is a new window opens. In the new window there is a message that the loading of the website has blocked however what would even be nicer would be for the window to never have been open in the first place. It appears that in AdGuard 5.0.138 they’ve been able to fix that issue which was a major complaint about moving from MV2 to MV3. So far for the week so far it has been performing wonderfully. I kind of stuck with Safari because “well, the alternative isn’t much better” but given the content blockers on Safari have been neglected for over a year (or more) combined with Apple more or less giving up on the idea of seriously putting some muscle behind extension support in Safari it makes sense to jump ship to Chrome along with moving to Google Workspace where I can use my two domain names and link it back to a single account – 30 aliases vs. the measly 3 included with iCloud (with no way to increase the number), I’m happy with the change.

Chrome 130 was released and I was reading through the comments on a recent article over on Arstechnica regarding breaking up Google. As I was reading through the platform roadmap and I find it funny thinking of the comments over on Arstechnica about ‘Google not conforming to web standards’ given that if you look at the latest platform tests (link) it appears that Chrome is doing a pretty good job conforming to open standards when compared to the number of tests that Safari is failing (the lack of standards compliance and unfixed bugs have been a long standing complaint by many web developers). Google has its laundry list of issues but the lack of promoting standards isn’t one of them – where as I can use Firefox with all the services Google provides Microsoft on the other hand has continued its spiteful attitude towards non-Microsoft browsers based on in their lack of or half baked support for non-Chromium based browsers regarding their services. That isn’t to say Google is perfect but compared to what it was living under the complete domination by Microsoft I would sooner be in this time line with Google being the big player.