Ad blockers broken (?)

[ajf.350d]

It appears that Safari ad blocker extensions are currently broken.
Anyone found any workaround for this currently?
I guess the extensions will be updated to take account of whatever Apple has changed before it goes public!

 

[Slartibart]

Which adblocker are you referring to? Besides the system and intrinsic Safari features I run Bloquealos/Frenalos and just tested Adguard - all seem to work fine on 17b3.

 

[ajf.350d]

Interesting. I normally use AdGuard too and also tried AdBlock Plus.
Neither appear to be blocking any ads on various pages, including macrumors.
There is a bug report for AdGuard and had found a few other comments on Reddit as well.

Both the above seem to be OK though on other browsers installed.

I'll have a look at the one you normally use as well.

 

[Slartibart]

Adguard had an update a week ago - version 4.5. Do you run that?

 

[VigneshB]

Seems to be a known issue with iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. Safari on MacOS is working with extensions as usual.

Currently am sticking with Firefox focus’ content blocker in Safari and DNS based adblocker. Won’t block ads served from the same domain, but is kind of better than having all ads being displayed.

 

[ajf.350d]

AdGuard is current version.
Same As @VigneshB just using a secondary browser at the moment which is slightly annoying as no bookmarks, without messing around, but better than ads everywhere!
Looks like that is the only workaround so must be something specific in the Safari changes that have broke it.
manage for couple months I guess until official IOS17 released!

This is the bug report. There are aware of the issue now and there is a work around I’ve noticed:

Infinite filter updates on iOS 17 · Issue #2188 · AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS

Issue Details AdGuard version: AdGuard for iOS 4.5.0 (1002) Device model and storage size: iPhone 13 Pro Max (256GB) Operating system and version: iOS 17 Beta 3 Browser or App: iOS App Expected Beh...

github.com

 

[Slartibart]

Funny thing, I just deactivate everything else and switched to Adguard:

Ads are blocked. That is this arstechnica-page on “How long will the last Intel Macs be supported? macOS Sonoma gives us some hints”.

 

[VigneshB]

AdGuard is current version.
Same As @VigneshB just using a secondary browser at the moment which is slightly annoying as no bookmarks, without messing around, but better than ads everywhere!
Looks like that is the only workaround so must be something specific in the Safari changes that have broke it.
manage for couple months I guess until official IOS17 released!

This is the bug report. There are aware of the issue now and there is a work around I’ve noticed:

Infinite filter updates on iOS 17 · Issue #2188 · AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS

Issue Details AdGuard version: AdGuard for iOS 4.5.0 (1002) Device model and storage size: iPhone 13 Pro Max (256GB) Operating system and version: iOS 17 Beta 3 Browser or App: iOS App Expected Beh...

github.com

That workaround requires using Adguard in a pseudo VPN which will break icloud private relay which I prefer to use.
We need to wait till beta 4 where it hopefully gets resolved.

Funny thing, I just deactivate everything else and switched to Adguard:

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Ads are blocked. That is this arstechnica-page on “How long will the last Intel Macs be supported? macOS Sonoma gives us some hints”.

It is not completely disfunctional. It is semi-functional wherein it blocks some ads and lets in some others. Also cosmetic filtering doesn't seem to work as seen in your image too where there is a white space in the place of the ad.
There is some issue with the content blocking API which is not getting updated with the necessary filters. It won't be able to block ads using the Advanced Protection option which is required to block more complex ads as in YouTube ads.