no sorry m8 no idea never needed it IOS/Mac User . just turn off website tracking ,BLOCK pop up windows ,flash doesnt load/display in Safari . hence no idea what it is or never needed something like that .
Thanks for the funniest post that I've read all week!!! I personally feel that Safari on the Mac is even worse than Internet Exploiter on Windows, and only use it to test that a web site I'm visiting is actually broken and not just malfunctioning due to my ad and javascript blockers in Chrome.
I try not to use the web on iOS, since Chrome doesn't support plugins and the ads drive me crazy. There are ad blockers for iOS, but they either work by passing all traffic through a proxy (not desirable) or setting up a bogus VPN profile (which would probably clobber my real 24/7 privacy VPN functionality).
The javascript blocker is actually more important than ad-blocking to me. I don't use or view Facebook/Twitter content, so why are 75% of the web sites that I visit loading javascript from one or both?!?!? Talk about spyware! I often wonder if the NSA isn't sponsoring them both to track where everyone is going or reading? Well worth the effort of "training" the script blocker, IMHO.....
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glad it made you smile rather than make you cringe at my ignorance or lack of knowledge (with no dark sarcasm in the classroom) , but seriously I have no use or need to add a blocker of any kind , I have multiple mac based machines, tablets, phone and so on and never seen the need to be concerned about blocking anything. Now as for windows , I bought a windows laptop brand spanking new Dell super duper intel processor(that was supposed to take me to the darkside of the moon) 8gb of ram (that should gave me that wish you were here feeling) etc last year as I thought I would try and go back to a windows based OS , i kept it 3 days and returned it(it felt like the wall) , i literally spent 3 days of closing annoyying pop up windows and annoying other nag screens (finally my hands felt just like two balloons) . This experience I have not had in 10 years using a MAC based OS and thats the truth (I have become comfortably numb.) I'm not irritated by ads what get sup my nose is those the take over your desktop or device your using.
So as for Safari i don't have your issues whilst surfing the net be on any device or machine I use. So there you are I have NO need or requirement personally.(perhaps on you can guess what I have been listening to all day)..take care brian
Brian even if you dont mind the ads I think it would be very useful to you in particular, since not once you mentioned you often have slower connection. It is a bit contradicting that on one hand you post very useful info about how to shrink page size, but the fact that 80% of today's normal webpages (not personal) are ad bloatware does not really concern you. What use does it have if a page has minified JS and zipped images and SVG sprites, which save a few kbs, and then a huge ad in the background 1MB large...
With regards to Win... I agree 200%! I have Win7 at work and I hate it - though I hate it just like I hate Macs - I have nothing against people using it, Im not saying it is a bad OS or bad devices - it is just not my cup of coffee. And Im not like one of those haters who just say they dont like it because it is Apple. At uni we had to use Macs and I had an iPhone borrowed from a friend for 3 weeks and the longer I had it the more I disliked it.
I use Linux at home and my mobile OS of choice would definitely be Android. I use Google for everything (mail, maps, GDrive etc.).
I think that Mac is a good OS, well optimized, just like Linux. The fact I dont like it is just because we are all different.
However, with Windows, I really think it is extremely poorly designed and made OS and that is a relatively objective statement. And it is surprising that it is so given how many people use it.
I hate exactly what you mentioned, some stupid popups all the time, notifications... and the absolute worst thing - Windows Updates.... I could never get my head around this. I click updates, it takes usually several hours to "find them" - find what?! Shouldnt this be just a simple comparison of what I have installed and what is available? Shouldnt this take about 2s just like it does on my Linux? Then validating updates, then installing them - usually several times because it always fails the first time - then several restarts, then another update check - very often yet new updates are found and finally after maybe 2 days of this running in the background you are "up-to-date", this state usually lasts for about a day or two... which is why I of course turned the autoupdates off, but in Win10 it gets a lot more complicated.
Just to give you an idea - even on my laptop with over 10yr old technology, searching for updates on Linux takes 2s, then installation usually a few minutes max, completely done in the background, with no need to restart etc. And my guess is it probably works similarly on Macs.
Im really glad how badly MS failed with mobile OS. Otherwise we would have another useless system, which people would use only because it would be widespread.