Ask HN: How hard would it be to port ublock origin to Mac Safari?

5 points by librarianscott 3 years ago | 3 comments

So on Safari for MacOS, I usually use the Adguard for Safari extension. But I miss ublock origin. I have been playing around with the Orion (of Kagi search) fame since it will let me use Firefox or Chrome extensions, but I keep having this nagging feeling that we just need a Mac developer to port ublock origin and that will satisfy 99.99% of the folks who use Mac. So, what does it take to maintain a port over time, year after year?

lapcat 3 years ago |

Impossible, because Safari is missing crucial API needed by uBlock Origin.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...

Incidentally, missing API is also why uBlock Origin will either die or be significantly limited in Google Chrome with Manifest version 3. (I'm not sure of Gorhill's plans.)

mikequinlan 3 years ago |

https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

> It will not possible for uBlock Origin to work with the upcoming Safari 13 / macOS Catalina release

warning26 3 years ago | |

Yup. The sad part is that it used to work with Safari, but with Apple's new extensions-must-be-in-the-App-Store-because-reasons change, that was the end of that.