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    Safari Ad Blocker

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by taelrak, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. taelrak

    taelrak Lost

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    Do i decided to give Safari 5.1 a shot, mostly because of all those new gestures.

    What's the best ad blocker for Safari? (most effective, smallest impact on performance, fewest rendering errors, actual blocking (not just hiding of images), etc.)?

    A quick google search turns up Adblock, Adblocker, SafariBlock and GlimmerBlock.

    Not much detailed information about any of them unfortunately.
     
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    kornchild2002 Notebook Deity

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    I have had good luck with AdBlocker though it will let one ad slip every once in a while. It will block images, videos, Flash videos, links, descriptions, etc. It even blocks most advertisements that play before some Flash videos hosted on websites. For example, I no longer watch any commercials on YouTube and every ad there is blocked. Ads still get through with Hulu though but I think that is just par for the course.

    Edit: I noticed that AdBlocker does not work in the latest version of Safari that came with Lion.
     
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