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FWIW, I've been on Catalina for a couple of months now, which means no uBlock, and the web has been pretty usable. Safari alone seems to be doing a pretty good job with isolating the worst ads.

That being said, this post reminded me to install a replacement, so I just installed Adguard. We'll see how it goes.

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Are you not concerned by the permissions Adguard requires?

No because Safari is my “web browser”. It’s the one I use for HN/Reddit etc. Anything I’d consider “private” like email or banking or even GitHub is done with FireFox or Chrome.

Also I didn’t see anything flagrantly bad at first glance.

Edit: Looking closer you may be referring to the old extension and not the new “content blocker” version, which is sandboxed by Safari and didn’t need to ask for any permissions.

I installed Adguard myself after reading this post — it appears as though they've split the functionality into many extensions, and only a few require full-page access. I'm trying it without those "advanced" extensions enabled and it seems to be doing just fine.

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