Adguard is the world's first standalone ad blocker for Mac OS X. It is an ultimate program has all the features to ensure more efficient and comfortable use of the Internet.
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Description
More than 21,000,000 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
In this version, we fix several crashes and address other stability issues. Also, AdGuard for Safari now supports scriptlets (this is a new tool to enhance ad blocking quality).
BEST Ad Blocker for Mojave
After upgrading to Mojave, I found Safari has completely changed its mechanism of extensions. All of my ad block plug-ins now only function in very limited manners (no filter setting, no element inspections etc.).
And I feel particularly annoyed -- I browse Chinese websites frequently, yet almost all ad blockers would never succeed in removing ads in foreign languages unless you set up filters manually. Yet as I said before, all most all ad blockers under Mojave are too succinct to offer such advanced features.
Thankfully, I finally found this lovely, amazing, elegant, useful, powerful AdGuard. The pre-installed language-specific filer lists are totally incredible.
To Mojave users, if you're reading this review, pls stop searching for other ad blockers. AdGuard is THE BEST!
Just Installed — Works Great!
I’ve been very annoyed lately with the growing presence of distracting ads on some of my favorite news sites, like the Washington Post and SFGate. So I just installed AdGuard. I chose to not launch AdGuard at login, but to show the icon in the menu bar. This way, I can turn on AdGuard when I’m on a site where I want it active, such as the Washington Post, and turn it off the rest of the time. It works great! When I turn it on, all the ads disappear. Couldn’t ask for more.
Loved This Until The Last Update
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This adblocker works really great but they've added an 'advanced' mode that basically sends all of your information to a remote server for 'better ad blocking'. I'm sure the claim will be that it's all done anonymously; but often there are often personal identifiers in URLs, and in page content, not to mention each installation of this application creates unique identifiers that the application has complete control over and is free to send to the remote adblock analysis server. 'Trust us! We're on your side!' they'll say. Sure.
They allow you to not turn this option on, but every time I start up Safari it now opens the AdGuard control panel with an annoying message that I haven't activated their spyware mode yet.
Basically, they've found a way to work around the protections Apple put in place and it's disappointing on all fronts.
Information
macOS 10.12 or later, 64-bit processor
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
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.