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Best Ad Blocker Safari Extension?

Is it possible that AdBlock Plus causes overnight battery drain? My phones seems to be losing about 4-5% every night..
 
It is possible. Check it in settings/battery. As I wrote above, adguard pro had been eating juice much more then wipr is.
 
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mkrizan4 said:
Is it possible that AdBlock Plus causes overnight battery drain? My phones seems to be losing about 4-5% every night..
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Check your battery usage chart and see what is running when you see the 4-5% battery drop. You won’t know if it the AdBlock Plus but it will show Safari consuming the battery. You would need to uninstall AdBlock Plus and do a comparison between when you had it installed and see if the battery drain stops. Although, it is normal to have some battery drain in standby.
 
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Check your battery usage chart and see what is running when you see the 4-5% battery drop. You won’t know if it the AdBlock Plus but it will show Safari consuming the battery. You would need to uninstall AdBlock Plus and do a comparison between when you had it installed and see if the battery drain stops. Although, it is normal to have some battery drain in standby.
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I have checked that already, I have 0 apps or anything shown below the graph, at the time I was asleep. I can only see how the battery slowly dropped by 1% through the night. It doesn't add up.. what could be the culprit?
 
mkrizan4 said:
I have checked that already, I have 0 apps or anything shown below the graph, at the time I was asleep. I can only see how the battery slowly dropped by 1% through the night. It doesn't add up.. what could be the culprit?
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I would try a Reset All Settings next.
 
I use AdGuard installed systemwise ( as an app in System ) and no ads throughout my OS. Since 2018,
 
AdGuard free works the best for me. It's my go-to ad-blocking app. I use it on Chrome on macOS as well.

I have used the systemwide AdGuard on MacOS before, but I had problems with it on my Intel Mac (it caused extremely high CPU usage). I don't think that would happen this time, but I'd just rather install them browser-by-browser.

Norton AdBlocker is also a good iOS option.
 
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Ive been using Wipr and love that I get no ads on YouTube.com in Safari, but still get ads in the YT app.

I have Wipr Extra turned on.

I'm enjoying Wipr, however sadly for whatever reason am getting ads when visiting MacRumors still.
 
HappyDude20 said:
Ive been using Wipr and love that I get no ads on YouTube.com in Safari, but still get ads in the YT app.

I have Wipr Extra turned on.

I'm enjoying Wipr, however sadly for whatever reason am getting ads when visiting MacRumors still.
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The easiest way to do that is to sign up for a contributor. Upgrade your account. You won’t see any more ads from MacRumors.
 
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HappyDude20 said:
Ive been using Wipr and love that I get no ads on YouTube.com in Safari, but still get ads in the YT app.

I have Wipr Extra turned on.

I'm enjoying Wipr, however sadly for whatever reason am getting ads when visiting MacRumors still.
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Weird, I’m using Wipr and I’m not getting any ad on any website. And the Wipr Extra extensión, I’ve limited it only to YouTube dot com.
 
TheYayAreaLiving ? said:
The easiest way to do that is to sign up for a contributor. Upgrade your account. You won’t see any more ads from MacRumors.
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Yeah, this seems like an awesome solution as well, if you really enjoy the site and you can afford it, it’s a great way to show your appreciation. I will probably become a contributor when I get more economical stability (I don’t want to get into details)
 
Hello everyone. I'm using AdGuard on my iPhone. I'm really tired however of videos automatically playing on both the NYPost and NY DailyNews mobile websites. I have 'auto-play video previews' in the Motion settings disabled. I would really appreciate any suggestions. This drives me crazy.
 
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blairh said:
Hello everyone. I'm using AdGuard on my iPhone. I'm really tired however of videos automatically playing on both the NYPost and NY DailyNews mobile websites. I have 'auto-play video previews' in the Motion settings disabled. I would really appreciate any suggestions. This drives me crazy.
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Try the Safari extension in touchtube
 
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blairh said:
Hello everyone. I'm using AdGuard on my iPhone. I'm really tired however of videos automatically playing on both the NYPost and NY DailyNews mobile websites. I have 'auto-play video previews' in the Motion settings disabled. I would really appreciate any suggestions. This drives me crazy.
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A few weeks (months?) ago YouTube (?) made some kind of change, and now videos embedded in websites play in both Safari itself as well as my RSS reader. It’s infuriating. AdGuard doesn’t help with this issue, as you mentioned.
 
EastHillWill said:
A few weeks (months?) ago YouTube (?) made some kind of change, and now videos embedded in websites play in both Safari itself as well as my RSS reader. It’s infuriating. AdGuard doesn’t help with this issue, as you mentioned.
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If the issue @blairh is having is involving embedded YouTbe videos, an app called Vinegar could solve it. It’s just $2. But please, don’t spread too much the voice, otherwise the big G will counteract it and will render it useless, just like what happened when there was a technique to play YouTbe videos on the background, and after several articles on MacRumors explaining how to exploit that, the big G adressed the issue and was no longer useful.

That app is great for playing YouTbe without the annoyances of YT, but seriously, don’t talk too much of it because it won’t last too much.
 
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Populus said:
If the issue @blairh is having is involving embedded YouTbe videos, an app called Vinegar could solve it. It’s just $2. But please, don’t spread too much the voice, otherwise the big G will counteract it and will render it useless, just like what happened when there was a technique to play YouTbe videos on the background, and after several articles on MacRumors explaining how to exploit that, the big G adressed the issue and was no longer useful.

That app is great for playing YouTbe without the annoyances of YT, but seriously, don’t talk too much of it because it won’t last too much.
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That’s very true, a lot of cat and mouse here. Someone else recommended that app last week, I guess I should take a look at it ?
 
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