Ghostery have developed a 'lite' version for users of Mojave, but I can't see where to download it. Like a lot of people here are saying, the current version is considered legacy on Mojave and is disabled by default.
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So the options at the moment are wait for an update to the Adguard extension (and all other similar extensions by the sound of it), or get Adguard desktop?
no adblocker can stop yuotube ads - only if it routes your traffic thru their servers - but than they got your data to sell
Just installed Adblock via brew and it seems to work alright (it’s blocking ads on safari anyway)
Wipr and Ka-Block both seem to have been updated to the new format and are working with Safari 12. I'm using Ka-Block with no problem.
^^Yes, Wipr works great. Just installed it and so far it's doing the job!!! Thanks!!
It seems to be adjusting the pages to compensate for hiding ads. I've only had in an hour or so and may be wrong. I do not see a way to turn it on an off on individual sites though. Just about to research that. Nothing shows up on the menu bar like AdBlock did.
If anyone's interested, Adguard have published a statement:
https://adguard.com/en/blog/safari-adblock-extensions/
https://adguard.com/en/blog/safari-adblock-extensions/
Thanks, I'm giving Wipr a try. 
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MacRumors really is the best Mac user information exchange on the net uBlock Origin hasn’t been updated in git since April 23, and the developer has removed it from the list of current projects on his website. I’m treating it as abandonware and actively considering Better Blocker as its replacement.
Same here, its good so far, seems like its light on resources and I like how it does not have an actual extension tab on the Safari taskbar, as someone stated just use the Safari settings wheel tab to unblock individual websites if so wish.
Same here. Based on the Adguard statement it sounds like more changes will be coming. Last night Wipr became the number 1 paid for app on the app store. Going to be a lot of unhappy customers if Wipr does face the same treatment.
I just stumbled on this thread and, after reading through it, it seems clear a lot of folks don't understand the big change that happened a while back with Safari. In the past, all ad blockers were extensions that basically filtered out ads at the rendering stage, consuming considerable additional resources to do so. But with the Safari content blocking API, the modern MacOS (or iOS) ad blocker app does nothing more than provide a way to manage multiple blacklists and whitelists (rules) and updating of those developer supplied rules. When you launch the ad blocker app it briefly consumes quite a bit of resources updating the rules into Safari via the API. Once that is done the ad blocker app can be quit. Henceforth, when browsing a web site, safari applies the rules (very slight bump in resource demands to scan through a data structure to do that), and then unwanted content is filtered out by avoidance -- the content is never requested by the browser (very significant reduction in resource consumption). So the only ads you will see (assuming the necessary rules are present and enabled) are embedded first-party content that is served on equal footing as core content. Of course sites can use javascript to detect nonexistence of expected document objects for ads and then suppress the core content from the site accordingly (ad blocker blocker). To block YouTube ad content, I think you would need to intercept the video stream and preprocess it which would cause playback delay and consume a lot of resources (I don't think any ad blockers can do that with the latest YouTube embedded ad implementation). I use 1Blocker and browsing of web sites goes way, way faster. I hadn't realized the 1Blocker developers were abducted by aliens... but I was aware of the "second iOS app" ripoff scheme (with 1Blocker X or whatever it's called). I don't know anything about wipr but hopefully that one leverages the Safari Content Blocking API, too. The legacy ad blockers like Ad Blocker and Ad Blocker Plus are undesirable now, at least on Mac.
Oh, I forgot to mention that using an ad blocker that leverages the Safari Content Blocking API not only results in faster web page loads (faster than if you didn't have any ad blocker installed at all), but also battery life is significantly increased on Apple portable devices.
P. S. I just verified that both 1Blocker legacy and 1Blocker X on iOS sync just fine with 1Blocker app on Mac via iCloud. Yeah, I just gave the developers 70% of another $4.99 -- the last app update was 2 months ago which isn't too bad. I launched both 1Blocker for Mac and 1Blocker X on my iPhone and as I enabled the toggles on my iPhone the toggles got enabled on my Mac as I watched which was cool. One thing I did notice, though, was that 1Blocker X on iOS has a blocking category that doesn't exist in 1Blocker app for Mac ("Block Annoyances") so that couldn't visibly sync, but I suspect those rules are just in different places in the Mac app (probably due for any update). Also, the 1Blocker Mac app has an ad blocker blocker category, but I don't think those rules work well or at all, from what I can tell. I should also mention that after first installing 1Blocker X for iOS, most of the important toggles were initially off and that "off" state sync'ed to the Mac. So I turned them on for both platforms as my syncing experiment.
Oh, I forgot to mention that using an ad blocker that leverages the Safari Content Blocking API not only results in faster web page loads (faster than if you didn't have any ad blocker installed at all), but also battery life is significantly increased on Apple portable devices.
P. S. I just verified that both 1Blocker legacy and 1Blocker X on iOS sync just fine with 1Blocker app on Mac via iCloud. Yeah, I just gave the developers 70% of another $4.99 -- the last app update was 2 months ago which isn't too bad. I launched both 1Blocker for Mac and 1Blocker X on my iPhone and as I enabled the toggles on my iPhone the toggles got enabled on my Mac as I watched which was cool. One thing I did notice, though, was that 1Blocker X on iOS has a blocking category that doesn't exist in 1Blocker app for Mac ("Block Annoyances") so that couldn't visibly sync, but I suspect those rules are just in different places in the Mac app (probably due for any update). Also, the 1Blocker Mac app has an ad blocker blocker category, but I don't think those rules work well or at all, from what I can tell. I should also mention that after first installing 1Blocker X for iOS, most of the important toggles were initially off and that "off" state sync'ed to the Mac. So I turned them on for both platforms as my syncing experiment.
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Would it not have been dropped already like all the other ad blockers with the update to Safari 12?
I’ve been using Adblock Plus for a while on Safari and they just updated it to the new extension format. It seems to work fine for me except it no longer removes the white space from where the ads used to be on the web page. Are there any ad blockers that have been updated to the new format that block ads reliably and delete the white space as well?