Matisyahu's Blog

I went down to One NZ to buy a Samsung S25 Ultra with 512GB storage – after getting it setup the first thing I did was de-Samsung’ed the phone but uninstalling all the Samsung software they pre-install then installing all the Google software such as the Phone, Clock, Calendering, Contacts, GBoard etc. resulting in a debloated Samsung expereicen. I’m sure that some people may find these features useful but for me, unless you go all the way and provide an end to end cloud experience that can be used not only on the phone but desktops, laptops etc. then it is a glorified waste of time. Samsung would have an amazing device on their hands if they did their OneUI customisation and only installed Google apps.

uBlock Origin Lite just keeps getting better and better – although I would love Google to get their act together to speed up the approval of extensions (or allow users to opt into updating filters outside of normal releases) but even with the delay things are pretty good. With that being said, as I’ve noted in the past, I thought the changes to the extension framework in the form of the declarative net request would result in a substandard experience but so far the experience has been pretty good. At first AdGuard had a slight lead over uBlock Origin Lite in that it did a better job blocking popups (clicking on a video to play it but another window opens up rather than playing the video) however uBlock Origin Lite has surpassed AdGuard particularly when it comes to website compatibility as well as not causing the browser to hang which I have found occurs on occasion with AdGuard.

I’ve gotten in contact with my current internet service provider to see when the 30 day notice kicks in so then I can plan to move my internet over to One NZ – one provider for everything which makes life a whole lot easier with the added bonus that they support IPv6.