Safari ads and pop up blocking

[cool11]

Believe me, all years, I have tried numerous solutions for pop up blocking and ads blocking in Safari.
I have gone through settings, 'websites', 'security' and so on.
I have installed adblock, adblock plus and so on.
From what I see, nothing can really work well!
All efforts, lead to a situation that some ads and pop ups are blocked, but most of them not!

In contrast, in Chrome and Firefox, all years I had very successful solutions, in the past and also now.
The latest years I use ublock origin lite, it is really fine.

So, I wonder if I am the only one that discovers that these topics are not handles well in Safari.
Is there any effective solution?

 

[bogdanw]

I use AdBlock Pro for Safari https://apps.apple.com/app/adblock-pro-for-safari/id1018301773
Also useful Hush Nag Blocker https://apps.apple.com/app/hush-nag-blocker/id1544743900

 

[User #07242024]

Don’t use multiple adblockers, stick to one. Ghostery is set once and forget, if AdGuard you can choose AdGuard own filters or use EasyList and Fanboy.

 

[cjsuk]

AdGuard is pretty good. Especially with the DNS blocking option. Worth paying for it on that basis.

 

[aperfectcircle]

Wipr and its follow up Wipr 2 have been working great for me for a few years now.

 

[lucytaylor01]

You're not alone many users find Safari's ad and pop-up blocking less effective than Chrome or Firefox. AdGuard or Wipr work decently.

 

[2024]

uBlock Origin Lite is available in the App Store. You may need the latest version of Safari to enable it though - I don't know.

‎uBlock Origin Lite

‎uBO Lite (uBOL) is a reliable and efficient content blocker. The default ruleset corresponds to uBlock Origin's default filterset: - uBlock Origin's built-in filter lists - EasyList - EasyPrivacy - Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list You can enable more rulesets by visiting the options...

apps.apple.com

 

[MacGizmo]

I have somewhat the opposite problem. I turn off all ad blocking, including Safari's built-in Content Blocker, and I still can't get some sites to load a pop-up window until I click the "Reload without Content Blockers" button.

 

[bogdanw]

I have somewhat the opposite problem. I turn off all ad blocking, including Safari's built-in Content Blocker, and I still can't get some sites to load a pop-up window until I click the "Reload without Content Blockers" button.

Turning off from Safari > Settings > Websites > Content Blockers?
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/websites-ibrwe2159f50/mac

 

[MacGizmo]

Turning off from Safari > Settings > Websites > Content Blockers?
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/websites-ibrwe2159f50/mac

Yeah, that was the first thing I did. Doesn't help. SOMETHING is preventing a few sites from working the first time (only after clicking the button does it load).

 

[Boyd01]

I noticed something (maybe) similar recently on my utility company's website while paying the bill. There's a button to view the full bill and that didn't work, while I saw a really quick alert about blocking something. Thought that was odd, so I checked the settings and I had already turned off content blockers some time ago because they interfered with a govt website.

In my case, I think the utility company had recently changed their site where before, it was just a button to download a PDF file but now they were trying to display it in a new window. I don't use any ad blockers or other extensions, just plain vanilla Safari.

 

[MacGizmo]

I figured out my problem. I had turned off all blockers, and had the site listed in the content blockers section in prefs to specifically allow site ABCD.com to not use them. I even went to the Pop-Up Windows section of the Safari prefs and made sure that site ABCD.com was listed and set to "Allow."

But what I didn't realize was that site ABCD.com wasn't the actual site serving the pop-up, it was Amazon's AWS site that popped the window up. Once I allowed that site to serve pop-ups, everything was working as it should.