We've objectively tested Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge to determine which offers the best:

Speed,

Standards Compliance,

Once upon a time, developing for Apple was an exciting, rewarding challenge. But lately, that relationship has soured.

Apple has transformed into a trillion-dollar giant that sees developers not as partners, but as a resource to control, extract from, and when convenient ignore.

It s easy (and fair) to complain about subscription fatigue. But here s the take that might rub people the wrong way:

Subscriptions aren t the problem they might actually be the fix.

It s 2026, and web users still get bombarded by slow-loading sites, sketchy tracking scripts, and YouTube ads that interrupt every second thought.

So we did something about it.

As an ad blocker developer, I often question if it s wrong to block advertising. What ads should be blocked? What ads shouldn t be blocked? If you use a service or view a website, when is it ok to block their ads and when isn't it?

To answer this, I think the question should first be:

Most apps don t make money from subscriptions. They make money from you. Your data browsing history, app usage, personal behaviour is worth cold, hard cash.

We ran the numbers for our app, Magic Lasso Adblock, and here s what we found:

• Current Subscription revenue per user: $25.50/year

• Potential Data broker revenue per user: $30+/year

• Meaning: we could more than double our profit margins overnight by selling user data.

As an indie software business, we're constantly faced with a tough question:
Do you double down on what s working?
Or hedge your bets and build something new?

The past year at Magic Lasso Adblock, we asked ourselves that very question.