Kaylee’s AppsHere’s what I’ve been working on since June!
https://kaylees.site/wipr-filtr.html
Hope you’re excited 🥰
Gracjan Nowak@mipstian My YouTube watching is split between the web interface in Safari (without an account and with Wipr 2 installed) and Play by @mactanaka, where I save videos for later and follow channels I watch often (instead of subscribing normally). I wonder how the information Google collects about me compares between these two approaches. I assume Filtr will be able to block a portion of Google's data collection in Play (ads already don't load there).
@gracjan @mactanaka possibly but we’ll have to test
@mipstian I'm glad there's now a more robust way to filter traffic than the previous DNS or VPN based approaches. It's also nice that the app doing the blocking can do so without directly seeing what the traffic is. I watched Apple's video for developers about this topic, and while I don't claim to understand the math behind it, it seems like they put a lot of thought into it. One issue I see is how easy it'll be to tell if it's working well, since the data collection is often invisible.
@gracjan they can add some stats pretty easily I think, but they haven’t yet so I’m not holding my breath
@mipstian The stats would have to be in the operating system, right (probably viewable in Settings)? It's impossible for the app to see the number or percentage of blocked requests?
@gracjan not currently, no. Not sure they’d even give that data to the app, they’ve been extremely privacy-paranoid with the design of this feature
@mipstian They probably won't give apps access to that information. Wipr doesn't have stats for Safari either, because it uses the Content Blocker framework for most of its rules (with Wipr Extra being optional for more tricky cases). Some apps provide insight into what they block (both in Safari and in native apps), but it's because they rely entirely on Web Extensions or VPN profiles.
@gracjan I’m familiar but thanks for the explanation lol
@mipstian I know you know. Sometimes I like to place my opinion in a specific context (in this case the opinion being the first sentence), even if the other person knows that context. Also, I wanted to mention the context in case someone else is reading the thread, since we're in a public space. I never assumed you don't know these things.