Matisyahu's Blog

I like to keep up to date to see what is happening with AdGuard and whether a particular issue has been fixed – the one I’ve wrote about has been the issue of AdGuard and websites that use Cloudflare verification. I’ve download and installed the latest version (Version 5.1.81) and everything is now working as it should. As much as I love uBlock Origin Lite I find that AdGuard does a better job blocking those sneaky popup windows where you click on a play button and it loads another window (the content is blocked but the fact that the window still loads is annoying). With that being said, the AdGuard developers need to communicate better – if the issue is known but the fix may take a few months to appear then just say that so then at least as an end user I get a sense that the issue has been taken onboard rather than the lack of communication being an indication of indifference to the problem I’m having. This is something I think developers in general need to take onboard – better communication.

I’ve finally caught up on ‘The Last of Us’ and Law & Order: Organized Crime while I’m slowly working through ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. There is some good content out there and these days I much prefer watching television series where ideas as developed over a whole season rather than trying to wrap everything up in a single episode. There are a few series that are coming back for another season such as Foundation and many other Apple originals.

At the moment I’m using Chrome and things are going well, I wonder whether Apple should just throw in the towel and go with Chromium to avoid the situation of Webkit constantly lagging in the areas of standards adoption, web extensions not to mention compatibility with websites. Don’t get my wrong, I admire fighting the good fight that I see with Webkit and Firefox but god knows when you’re lagging so far behind or fight tooth and nail against implementing features that would improve the experience for end users then I have to wonder what is it all for in the end. Are you maintaining your bespoke browser for a reason outside of “because we can”? What is the reasoning because it isn’t just me, as an end user, frustrated but also developers on various blogs talking about the amount of work involved with supporting Safari because of broken implementations, bugs that are reported but aren’t being fixed, third party extension developers keen to bring their extension yet either APIs are either partially implemented or if implemented they’re done in a way that is either broken or incompatible resulting in more work needing to be done than what should be necessary.

More theatrics in the world of politics – the Trump regime claiming to have come to a deal with China even though it was he who put the wheels in motion to cause the crisis only to then him to take credit for a 90 day temporary reprieve. Don’t expect the mainstream media to spend the next few days pointing out the fact that the ‘great deal’ they’re working on with South Korea never needed to happen because there was already a free trade agreement in the first place but that won’t stop Trump from claiming victory for something he never did himself. The average American? complete clueless as always and the Democrats – will they strip the presidency of the power to claim an emergency then upend the whole international order because of a bruised ego? I don’t put too much stock in the Democrats finding a backbone to do what is right not to mention the laziness of the American electorate to either turn out to vote and those who vote being clueless about what is happening in the real world. Sorry for that rant but I really had to get it off my chest – and those of us outside of the United States can only look helplessly on as we’re chained into our seats on the crazy train careening off the rails, taking us all down with the United States. I’d laugh if the consequences weren’t so serious.