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The one thing that is lacking from Safari is extensions. If this does what I believe then it will be my main browser. Safari adblocking sucks atm.
by connor-brooks 5y ago
The one thing that is lacking from Safari is extensions. If this does what I believe then it will be my main browser. Safari adblocking sucks atm.
- qsort 5y agoI have been happy so far with Adguard. It's not ublock origin but it will do the job.
- drcongo 5y agoSafari has extensions. Apple has just made them incredibly difficult to find by burying them in the Mac App Store.
- Macha 5y agoAnd by requiring an Apple Developer Account and associated tooling, they've made them just hard enough to develop that the long tail won't bother porting.
- spurgu 5y ago"Has" yes. Last time I checked the selection was horrible and most of the seemingly good ones were paid. Have things changed in the past 6-12 months?
- Brajeshwar 5y agoI'm on Safari, with the occasional testing and account segregations with Chrome. The combination of AdGuard[1] (found via SetApp[2]) and NextDNS[3] works for me well on Safari. 1. https://adguard.com https://adguard.com 2. https://setapp.com https://setapp.com 3. https://nextdns.io https://nextdns.io
- drcongo 5y agoI use the AdGuard extension too, with a Raspberry Pi running AdGuard Home which in turn uses NextDNS. I highly recommend every part of this setup, it's maintenance free, extremely reliable and I can't remember the last time an ad or tracker got through it.
- ezfe 5y agoI use Wipr and nothing else and don't see ads in Safari
- micromacrofoot 5y agoStrongly recommend ad blocking on the network level with something like a pihole, one of the best tech related things I've ever done
- cpmsmith 5y agoIt's true this is nice, but it's no replacement for a browser extension, and only does anything while you're at home.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoI haven't left my home in what feels like 1000 years
- jonwest 5y agoUnless you’re also automating a VPN connection to your home network when you leave it, which can be very helpful if you’re running something like pihole
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- cpuguy83 5y agoI've had pinhole straight up break real sites. Took me a bit to figure out it was pihole and not some browser extension.
- franga2000 5y agoNetwork-level blockers are very crude and tend to cause errors that are hard to debug and fix. I get it if you have no other option and they work well enough with a very conservative blocklist, but in my experience a dedicated extension will block more ads, block them better (no blank spots in pages), break legitimate content less often and when it does be far easier to temporarily bypass.
- 5y ago
- dubya 5y agoThe adblocker Wipr has recently added something beyond the Content Blocker API with Wipr Extra. I only found it because I had forgotten to switch to AdGuard on my office Mac, and Wipr Extra showed up in an update. Lots of restrictions and caveats though about what it can and can't do. Some details at https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr-faq.html#what-is-wipr-extra https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr-faq.html#what-is-wipr-ext...
- imbnwa 5y agoAm a beta tester, Orion has growing support for WebExtensions API. You can run uBlock Origin and Dark Reader right now, for example.
- ezfe 5y agoI use Wipr for Mac and it blocks all ads I've seen in Safari, including YouTube ads
- xhruso00 5y agoJust checked the recent reviews and they all say doesn't block YT ads. Is the special setting needed?
- jiveturkey 5y agoThere is more than one thing lacking from Safari. Profiles is a pretty big one as well.