Safari content blocker

[smithrh]

Important to know that Adblock and Adblock Plus are two entirely different extensions by different developers.

 

[KALLT]

Important to know that Adblock and Adblock Plus are two entirely different extensions by different developers.

There are rumours that the secret investor who bought the company behind AdBlock (BetaFish Inc) recently is also the majority shareholder of the company behind Adblock Plus (Eyeo GmbH). It would explain why AdBlock dropped their own implementation for ‘acceptable ads’ in favour of Adblock Plus’ acceptable ads white list.

 

[apple_power_user]

Important to know that Adblock and Adblock Plus are two entirely different extensions by different developers.

Thanks, I am aware of that distinction. I also understand that content blockers using Apple's API are probably preferable to straight ad blockers. Anecdotally, I am finding uBlock (not Origin) to load faster than Adblock. I gave Adamant a test run yesterday, and I don't think it's fully baked yet. I was experiencing delays on YouTube and other video sites.

 

[ChrisLTD]

I tried Adamant as well. It's working fine, but is there really no way to disable it temporarily without going into the Preferences?

 

[smithrh]

I thought others reading the thread should be aware - I wasn't when I first started looking for ad blocking extensions a couple years ago.

 

[smithrh]

I tried Adamant as well. It's working fine, but is there really no way to disable it temporarily without going into the Preferences?

Enable the Develop menu, it's a choice in there, but it's all or nothing.

 

[ChrisLTD]

Enable the Develop menu, it's a choice in there, but it's all or nothing.

You referring to the option to disable all extensions?

 

[MacGizmo]

On a side note. It's comical the amount of work people are willing to do in order to block some ads.

I use two blocking extensions, because I prefer to spend the time to blacklist certain sites. MacDailyNews for instance. There are so many ads (and RSS feed lists) on their pages, that it's shocking to see how fast the site loads and what it looks like when you block them all. Most sites I visit are whitelisted by default. I still don't click on 99.9% of their ads, but at least they're getting credit for pageviews/impressions.

 

[pcfacts]

I'm using adblock.css Simply and easily. http://usercss.ru/styles/adblock/

This is pretty amazing. Thanks.