AdGuard for Safari 4+
Adblock and privacy
Adguard Software Limited
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- Free
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Description
More than 35,000,000 AdGuard users enjoy the better, faster, and safer Internet. The ad blocker extension clears all ads in Safari and fights data tracking to protect privacy.
Unlike other major ad blockers, AdGuard provides some extra features you are used to having with the traditional (now deprecated) extensions:
● Manage protection from Safari
● Choose among popular filter lists
● Add custom filter lists
● Create your own filtering rules
● Manual blocking tool
● Whitelist websites in one click
AdGuard for Safari is based on the Safari native content blocking API, which makes it lightning fast.
KEY FEATURES
◈ Blocking Ads
Remove all kinds of ads from Safari browser easily. We have plenty of ad blocking filters and even an ability to manually remove ANY element on the page that you don't like.
◈ Blocking Trackers
Make your personal information protected by blocking known trackers.
◈ Blocking Annoyances
Tired of all the «Like» buttons and similar widgets infesting all of your frequented web pages? Just enable AdGuard "Social Media filter" and forget about them.
◈ Faster Browsing Speed
By preventing ads, annoyances, and trackers from loading when you visit a certain page, AdGuard makes browsing smoother and faster.
◈ Free and Open Source
AdGuard for Safari is a free and open source software. The source code is available on Github: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForSafari
What’s New
Version 1.11.17
As Sigmund Freud used to say: “Sometimes a new version is just a new version”. This time, we've gone with the standard set of changes: updated scriptlets, translations, and filters — without pomp and fanfare, but with a great sense of responsibility.
Ratings and Reviews
The ad blocker of my dream
Its design is perfect. It performs great. Its symbol in Safari looks native. When using it, I get a feeling that I'm using a product created by Apple, it just feels so native to the OS and to Safari.
Nice app but has some drawbacks
I've been using AdGuard for a couple of months and I liked it -- it does its job. It blocks most of the ads (not all of them but most, including video ads). It is even better than its competitors to be honest -- that's why it was my choice in the first place.
On the other side there are two major drawbacks that led me to uninstalling it:
1. I couldn't disable "Launch at startup" option. After reboot the setting just reset itself and ran AdGuard at startup again. I couldn't remove it neither from application UI nor from Login items in System settings.
2. If the application launches at startup it freezes and the only option to unfreeze it is to force quit. I run MacOS Catalina. It hasn't been an issue for a while but got really annoying after two months.
This forced me to consider other adblockers as an option. However, I must emphasize that as a blocker AdGuard is really effective, and if you're ok with handling some incovenient stuff, I would really recommend this app.
Best adblocker for Safari (from what remained)
uBlock Origin was WAY better, but since Apple does no longer allows it to do the job, AdGuard is best among the apps that remained and still working with Safari
App Privacy
The developer, Adguard Software Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Adguard Software Limited
- Size
- 177.2 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Adguard Software Limited LLC
- Price
- Free