Wipr 4+
Ad and Tracker Blocker
Kaylee Calderolla
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- $1.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Wipr blocks all ads, trackers, cryptocurrency miners, EU cookie and GDPR notices, and other annoyances, so you can focus on the content that matters to you while using Safari.
• Time, Data, and Battery Saver
Web pages load a lot faster with Wipr, and much less needs to be downloaded. Your battery will love this.
• Private
Wipr prevents countless trackers from invading your privacy. Wipr itself cannot, nor wants to, know what you do on the web.
• Fast
By using a new technology called Content Blocking Extensions, Wipr can do its job without slowing down Safari at all.
• Up-to-date
Wipr's blocklist is updated twice a week to keep up with the ever-changing web.
• Honest
No one can pay to unblock ads. There are no "acceptable ads". Wipr only answers to you.
• Global
Wipr will use an enhanced blocklist for Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese speakers.
• Smart
You can set up Wipr in seconds, and it will update automatically in the background to block future annoyances. There is no configuration.
This app was built with love and patience. I hope you'll enjoy using it as much as I enjoyed designing and building it.
Wipr is also available for your iPhone or iPad, look for it in the App Store!
Enjoy a cleaner web!
Terms & Conditions: https://kaylees.site/terms-and-conditions.html
What’s New
Version 1.55
• Wipr Extra improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Needs a whitelist capability
Wipr appeared to do well at blocking ads, but sometimes I need to whitelist sites to get them to work properly.
Wipr's official stance on this problem appears to be to provide them with the URL and they'll fix it, arguing that whitelisting will make it difficult for them to identify the problems and fix it for everyone.
I understand the sentiment, but it's cumbersome to have to pull up Safari preferences to disable all three plugins... then remember to turn them back on when I'm done with the site. After all of that, I can't be bothered to submit the URLs to the sites that cause me issues. #FirstWorldProblems
Developer Response ,
Hi! You can permanently disable Wipr on a website by selecting Settings for This Website from the Safari menu, and unchecking Enable content blockers.
Can't Uninstal Wipr
Unfortinately YouTube's new rules on Adblockers have necessistated me to find another adblocker with a whitelist feature. I have AdGuard now but I CANNOT unistall Wipr because Wipr Refresher is running constantly in the background and I cant get it to quit, even through activity monitor. I'd like to get this off my computer though the two extensions don't seem to clash. However, if there was a white list UI feature I wouldn't NEED to. I'm perfectly happy with it. Some ads get through but no more than any other adblocker I've tried short of what I would need to do to install a Rasberry pi hole. Maybe now that YT has cracked down on extensions this will be the thing that gives Wipr a white list. Fair warning though, I heard online that it doesn't have one because the developer is confident one will lead to user error and complaints (because obviously the average user has SO much trouble with this), so I wouldn't hold your breath.
Switched from uBlock Origin
I switched to this ad blocker after uBlock Origin hasn’t been updated in a while. I am pretty happy with the results especially compared to the 1Blocker version on Mac. Ads are getting blocked the same way as uBlock — as in I havent noticed anything that wasnt there before. The huge adavtanage is that this blocker uses Safari native content blocking so going back on a page causes it to refresh much less frequently than with uBlock. It still happens sometimes but on uBlock hitting the back button forced a refresh almost all the time. I think its worth the $2 price tag and support for the developer. Just FYI, to whitelist a page you have to right click the adress bar> settings for this website> and uncheck 'enable content blocker on this site.'
App Privacy
The developer, Kaylee Calderolla, 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, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Kaylee Calderolla
- Size
- 9.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2015 Kaylee Calderolla
- Price
- $1.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Generous Gang $0.99
- Super Generous Tip $4.99
- Copiously Generous Crew $1.99
- Generous Tip $0.99
- Very Generous Tip $1.99
- Lavishly Generous League $4.99