However, this app doesn’t have much to offer beyond that. If you want a free, no-frills ad blocker, Ghostery Lite is the way to go. What makes this app good is how simple it is to use. It’ll provide you with decent ad blocking around the web without charging you anything. This is a pretty popular option, though I would consider it to be average. Next up on our list of Safari ad blockers is Ghostery Lite. Updates, blocking, and more will all be managed for you. It only takes a few seconds to set Wipr up, and then after that, it’ll run itself in the background. It can’t track your information, so it couldn’t even track your data if it wanted to.

Other annoyances (like social media share buttons)Īnother perk of Wipr is that it’s super private.

And it will do so without any manual input. It takes advantage of, well, advanced filtering rules (like CSS rules, selectors, and scriptlets) and therefore can deal even with the complex ads, like the aforementioned YouTube variety.

We added a new module to AdGuard called 'Advanced Protection', and it's called like that for a reason. The obvious example is blocking YouTube ads in Safari: it's a hard and non-trivial task, up to the point that we had had to add a special shortcut that needed to be prompted manually every time you opened YouTube.įorget about that like it's never happened. The thing is, due to their 'declarative' nature regular content blocking rules are quite narrow in terms of what you can achieve with them. Web Extensions open the door to a completely new world filled with new opportunities. Ok, but how will this change impact AdGuard ad blocker? After all, AdGuard uses Content Blocking API to block ads in Safari that - or rather, has been using it up until now.

Yes, the extensions in Safari are somewhat limited in their capabilities compared to their desktop counterparts, but it should not take away from Apple and the team that worked on this innovation. Safari has become the first iOS browser to support browser extensions that we all know and love. This is truly a revolutionary change, no need to tone it down. In iOS 15 Apple has added the support for so-called Safari Web Extensions.

Adguard extension for safari