I'm glad someone pointed this out. What is it with this obsession to be 1000x productive all the time? I will not get paid more for it, will I?
And how is this going to make me more productive anyway? By removing "distractions"? I doubt anything can make me solve problems twice as fast as I already do, let alone 10x. This is ridiculous.
No, you will still work 8 hours, maybe even 10; it's the great paradox of productivity increases: e.g., teachers had to write way fewer reports before the computers became ubiquitous but when they did, the amount of reports increased slightly out of proportion so that teachers now spend more time on reports than they used to. Progress!
same here. I completely forgot how to use the internet without uBO or another decent adblocker. same reason i can't switch to iphone, they don't have a firefox with addon support.
There are decent adblockers for safari on both macOS and iOS.
Mozilla makes one for iOS, Firefox Focus, which you can setup as a content blocker. KaBlock exists for safari on both macos and ios. And there are many more.
Fwiw: Im using safari on both iOS and MacOS, macos with kablock and iOS with firefox focus and the experience has been good.
What am I missing on iOS safari + content blocker compared to firefox + ubo then? I used ubo on chrome on the desktop, but not a chrome user anymore. Honestly don’t see the difference compared to macos + kablock (and hush).
It's not surprising you wouldn't see much difference between Kablock/Safari on desktop and content blockers/Safari on mobile - I believe they're basically the same kind of interface for providing blocking rules.
FF's extension interface allows more sophisticated rules & blocking behavior, and uBO takes advantage of that. You may be fortunate that you don't happen to spend time on sites where it makes a difference, but I'll say from experience that I do see ads and annoyances on some sites on my iPad that I do not see on my laptop or Android phone (both running FF with uBO). It's not a huge difference - as was said above, Safari with content blockers is certainly usable, but uBO is still better.
I am speculating a bit here because I haven't dug too deeply to confirm this, but I think one technique sites use to work around ad blockers that Apple-platform content blockers don't handle well but uBO does is serving ad content from the same origin as real content (and even with similar paths as real assets). Last I looked, Safari content blockers were mostly limited to old-style rules of "block assets matching this URL" and "block this css selector on this site", so when sites do the work to make ad assets look the same as real content assets, that can't be blocked as effectively with content blockers. uBO can inspect the DOM and other aspects of the page content blockers can't, so it can do more to detect those techniques and block them.
I noticed the package name com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner. and went to https://qrcodescanner.com/ which advertises another very popular barcode scanner wescan.
Responsible disclosures aren't really a courtesy to the developer as much as they are a courtesy to the users who are running the software in production.
The courteous thing to do to the users is to let them know ASAP so they can stop using vulnerable software, without letting the vendor cover up the problem.
That's not a practical solution for the vast majority of cases. Even slow vendors can patch vulnerabilities much quicker than most institutional users can migrate software. If we stopped using software any time a vulnerability existed, we wouldn't be using much software.
This is one of the reasons that responsible disclosure policies exist, and why they are widely adopted in the industry. It is balance of risk and resources.
It would have been a courtesy to Teams users too, not just MS. I don't see the downside of going through the proper channels before disclosing this publicly unless the goal is some kind of "revenge" for the bug.
There is a difference between unintended yet inevitable bugs and negligence.
Deliberately cheapening out on security because security researchers generally hold to a responsible disclosure procedure is not in the users interest.
This is not one of those inevitable bugs. This is an indicator that there maybe security issues littered throughout the system because no one cares.
