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With ublock for safari (made by chris) why tou want purify? Lol

Ublock is free and is already there!!!
 
So there are two blockers with the same name, AdBlocker and AdBlocker. How confusing.

One of them sent me push notifications in German as I was surfing even though I had the blocker disabled in Settings. The options seem convoluted. BasicGreatGuy said he would review this one next.
 
No.

Ublock is one thing

Ublock origin is another.


You have ublock (made by chris) in extensions store for safari. I am using it.
 
ok, ublock WAS available to safari until safari9 update! (i checked it now) but i still have it in my extensions and is working properly.

i think chris just removed it in this safari's version to rename it to purify... :/
 
Speaking of content blockers for desktop Safari 9.0, there is Adamant as well as a few lesser-known ones: Ka-Block! and Roadblock. All are free and, I presume, use the same filters as their iOS counterparts.
I tested these three and Roadblock breaks videos on comedycentral.com. Ka-Block! doesn't block many trackers because it has only 278 rules. Adamant seems like a middle ground between these two.
These extensions have neither any options nor remote filter updates.

And this brings me to the biggest problem with the new content blocking extension API in Safari for OS X: these new content blockers are extremely hard to troubleshoot. By design, neither the extension nor the user gets any information whether something was blocked, and there's no option like on iOS to reload page without content blockers by holding the reload button.

That's why I'm not at all excited about new content blocker API and going back to Ghostery. It may use more memory, run less efficiently and rely on deprecated API, but it can do things that none of these new content blockers can. It has an option to replace social widgets, comment forms and video players with click-to-play placeholders. Ghostery shows what it blocks on every site, and I can choose to unblock a particular tracker, all trackers on the particular site, or even a particular tracker on a particular site.

So I hope that Apple changes its mind and makes it possible to see what resources were blocked.
 
I've pushed a new TestFlight build. Looks complete for me and I plan to push it to the App Store without any feature additions, just bugfixes. As per testers requested, the last list updates is displayed in the app. Also, safari extension is complete with site report functionality. Looking forward for your opinions!
 
I didn't read the whole post, but I in the op, it lists two content blockers, one of which seems to need mac based programs, is Apple not allowing iPhone 5's to be supported by devs? Meaning not a single app on the App Store supports iPhone 5, is that apples doing, or just the dev?
 
Apple allowed content blockers only on 64-bit processors so thats 5s onwards. There are few open source codes available which you can compile yourself and side load on iphone 5.

I didn't read the whole post, but I in the op, it lists two content blockers, one of which seems to need mac based programs, is Apple not allowing iPhone 5's to be supported by devs? Meaning not a single app on the App Store supports iPhone 5, is that apples doing, or just the dev?
 
How often does Purify update its filters? Is it once per version, or does it update in the background?
 
are there any good blockers that are out that are free? i wanna try some to see how well they work before i buy one
 
I just made a switch from using ublock in safari (OS X) to adguard and it's working great. Adguard offers a picker to choose an element to block and it works in similar fashion as to the element hiding helper addon in firefox.
 
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