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What is your preferred Safari ad blocker?
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You should mention this to the dev. who posts in that thread Queen6 linked. There was a recent post in there where someone reported an issue and in a matter of an hour or so they pushed out a blacklist update fixing the problem. They seem very responsive to user issues like this.
I have switched to the Adguard content blocker full time.
I did see that so I'll not buy it it's to much for it I think it was for like 3 days ago it was 19.99 for life then it was ok but 19.99 for one year, no way.
We are not talking about the full AdGuard proxy. We are talking about the free content blocker extension in the thread Queen6 inked.
The Adguard extension is very good but it stops songs playing when using a playlist (stops at the start of the next song unless you are in the Youtube tab). Swapped to the full Adguard (paid) version and thats also decent, just whether its worth paying for is the question (haven't bought it yet....).
Tried wipr and Adblock but full Adguard seems quicker for me.
Tried wipr and Adblock but full Adguard seems quicker for me.
O I see that was free and work perfect!
I'll stick with that
Recommend it works very well, even with Apple`s 50K limit of rules.
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I'm trying out adguard myself and it seems to be implemented differently then ublock, i.e., not an safari extension but some other middleware app that gets installed.
[doublepost=1453901341][/doublepost]So the folks who are trying adguard, are you trying the content blocker, of the full proxy? I don't know if I want to pay 20 dollars a year not to see ads - especially when there's others out there.
[doublepost=1453901341][/doublepost]So the folks who are trying adguard, are you trying the content blocker, of the full proxy? I don't know if I want to pay 20 dollars a year not to see ads - especially when there's others out there.
I've been using the new content blocker and it seems to work pretty well. Most of the other content blockers I tried were pretty much on or off with nothing in the way of configuration options. The Adguard content blocker is fully configurable with whitelists etc.
The dev. in that thread Queen6 linked has not mentioned anything about it going to paid, and they have already submitted it for approval to the Apple Safari extensions gallery, so I think he would have mentioned it. I'm thinking their idea is you will like the content blocker and that would motivate you to upgrade to the paid proxy version.
Just for the record, I wrote a bit more about the hosts based method that I use here:
https://www.ghostotter.com/an-interesting-method-of-ad-blocking-on-os-x/
https://www.ghostotter.com/an-interesting-method-of-ad-blocking-on-os-x/
The issue I found with an updated hosts file is latency and some sites just refused to come up. I was clicking on a link in CNN for a given news story. The hosts file I got from /someonewhocares.org was blocking it somehow. I restored my original hosts file and viola - the news link worked.
Odd. If you know the address of the site it's blocking then you can just comment it out in the hosts file.
Its not worth the effort, I moved on to a Safari extension. I also noticed a significant performance issue on one of my local news sites - it took forever to load, once I updated the hosts file. Resetting, removed that performance lag.
Fair enough. It's not a solution for everyone, and it's sure not as user friendly as a Safari extension. If it meets your needs as it stands then I think it's a good approach. If you find you need to mess about with it to get the behaviour/performance you want, as you do, then I agree that it's not worth the effort.
I've been playing around with different adblockers, so far adblock plus seems to be doing a decent job. I'm not seeing any performance issues on my 5k iMac, perhaps because it has a fairly fast processor. A couple of years ago, I tried adblock plus on my 2009 Mac Mini, but it was killing the performance - so far so good on this. I'm still open to seeing if there's a better alternative.