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Four iOS Safari Extensions to Make the Web Less Annoying
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Please some dev make an extension that kills the damned "give us your email/sign up for our newsletter/get 15% off unless you're an idiot" pop-overs that plague so many websites. I haven't found any ad-blockers that clear those.
Anyone?
Anyone?
It should be doable for specific sites, but it would be hard to get a comprehensive list of all the newsletter signup prompts to block. None of my ad blockers have a specific set of filters for them, but 1Blocker does offer an interactive HTML element selector to create your own blocking rules.
Noir is absolutely necessary if you use dark mode. It's good enough that I don't notice it most of the time and the times that I do notice it, I just bring up the sheet quickly to disable it for the current website. Most of the websites I frequent look fine in it, although some site have been switching to using proper browser dark mode support with CSS.
I wonder if StopTheMadness will add a setting to do what Banish does since it seems like a catch-all app.
I don't get cookie popups much, so I checked and my content blocker called 1Blocker is blocking the scripts that pop those up. Nice.
Has anyone else found 1Password's extension to be pretty much useless?
I wonder if StopTheMadness will add a setting to do what Banish does since it seems like a catch-all app.
I don't get cookie popups much, so I checked and my content blocker called 1Blocker is blocking the scripts that pop those up. Nice.
Has anyone else found 1Password's extension to be pretty much useless?
77% with AdGuard. Maybe I need to switch to Wipr…Only extension i use is Wipr which is an adblocker. Also gets rid of trackers and the cookie/GDPR notices. i'm quite happy with it.
it blocks 89% of trackers on this page:
for comparison, default safari is 12%, Duckduck Go browser is ~40% and Block Bear is ~64%
it is a paid app but worth it, imo. by far the best adblocker i've used on iOS.
I really wish Apple would allow other browsers on iOS to use their own engines rather than basically just putting a skin on Safari. I'd love to have honest-to-goodness Firefox on my iPhone - it provides so much more control in terms of privacy.
Or maybe you just need to configure it better. I get 93% with AdGuard.
I use AdGuard Premium and it blocked 93%. I was then able to add the ones it didn't block to my filters and now it's blocking 100%Only extension i use is Wipr which is an adblocker. Also gets rid of trackers and the cookie/GDPR notices. i'm quite happy with it.
it blocks 89% of trackers on this page:
for comparison, default safari is 12%, Duckduck Go browser is ~40% and Block Bear is ~64%
it is a paid app but worth it, imo. by far the best adblocker i've used on iOS.
I also got 93% with Adguard, but then added the ones it didn't get to my rules and now it's perfect.
I got 78% with AdGuard, how did you guys configure it to get the 93%? I’m a noob to this stuff.
Thanks !!
Haha! Right?! Especially on some sites, it’s like “you do realize I have a very good reason for blocking ads on your site, right?” Never mind that I just don’t trust any ad network to provide enough oversight to prevent malvertising campaigns.
No, the old Content Blocker API still exists. And those don’t have the issue that poster is talking about. Those ones provide Safari a list of URLs to block, and Safari caches the list and blocks them. No overhead and the apps don’t know anything about your browsing history. AdGuard still works as a Content Blocker, even after adding the extension.
this is actually pretty awesome my adguard blocked 93% leaving twitter, reddit and for some reason amazon and samsungOnly extension i use is Wipr which is an adblocker. Also gets rid of trackers and the cookie/GDPR notices. i'm quite happy with it.
it blocks 89% of trackers on this page:
for comparison, default safari is 12%, Duckduck Go browser is ~40% and Block Bear is ~64%
it is a paid app but worth it, imo. by far the best adblocker i've used on iOS.
Only extension i use is Wipr which is an adblocker. Also gets rid of trackers and the cookie/GDPR notices. i'm quite happy with it.
it blocks 89% of trackers on this page:
for comparison, default safari is 12%, Duckduck Go browser is ~40% and Block Bear is ~64%
it is a paid app but worth it, imo. by far the best adblocker i've used on iOS.
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I am glad you like it. I have tried dark mode and it hurts my eyes. I prefer reading against a white background, just like newspaper, letters, almost all magazines, etc.
LoL, it’s been there for ages. Not only from YouTube but from Facebook, Twitter etc. it’s called SW-DLT
I just bought it, but deleted it immediately. This extension can also pass on credit card information etc. I am not that naive!Only extension i use is Wipr which is an adblocker. Also gets rid of trackers and the cookie/GDPR notices. i'm quite happy with it.
it blocks 89% of trackers on this page:
for comparison, default safari is 12%, Duckduck Go browser is ~40% and Block Bear is ~64%
it is a paid app but worth it, imo. by far the best adblocker i've used on iOS.
They can spy. I just bought Wipr (recommendation by krspkbl), but deleted it immediately after installation. Those extension can pass on credit card information (remark from Apple). Why should one trust wipr-extra.js in mid term and disregard Apple's warnings?
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But that’s true of any extension. The idea is that extensions have access to the content of the web page. If the web page has your credit card info for your log in details on it, theoretically that does mean that the extension could hijack them. The same goes for Chrome and Firefox extensions, they modify the page so they could always snoop out sensitive data. I’d suspect most aren’t, but it’s a possibility, which is why Apple warns you about it.
Edit: Apple does give some more granular controls than just on and off, though. You can enable an extension just for one day or just on specific sites (or both, just for one day and just on specific sites). So it’s not an all or nothing thing like extensions in Firefox or (to a lesser extent, Chrome). (In Chrome, it’s a choice between enable, enable only on this site, and disable, but I’m pretty sure enable is the default. But Chrome doesn’t offer the “allow only today” option.)
Yes, so I'm patiently waiting to see what Apple itself will integrate into Safari.
I don't like the fact that MacRumors is inciting people to make their browsers insecure.