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I’ve tried switching to Safari a few times, but I keep struggling with finding an ad-blocking extension that Just Works. Aside from that, I like it, but just a couple minutes on the ad-covered Web makes me need to go crawling back to Chrome. I set up uBlock Origin Lite years ago in Chrome and it’s functionally fully set-it-and-forget-it.

“Just use pi-hole” well sometimes I leave my house so that is an insufficient option.

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I find this statement ironic while talking about the browser that spearheaded manifest v2 deprecation for "safety". Just use Firefox people, ublock origin still works there.

I use Wipr 2 for safari on both ios and macos and I’ve had no problems with it, not sure what sites you’re using but blocks on all the ones I use.

Wipr is my recommendation as well. It's great both on Mac and iOS.

Wipr 2 and AdGuard for me, never see an ad.

This is a paid application with additional features paywalled. Why not just use Firefox and uBlock Origin?

- Not an option on iOS

- Safari sips battery on macOS

No hate for Firefox, and glad it’s an option for people, but Wipr was worth the small $ to me personally. YMMV.

The other limitation, from my wife: you cannot change the browser header colours. It’s all the standard steel or cloudy style they have now.

It’s stupid, I know. But sometimes people like cars with a different colour of paint. Chrome has had this since maybe 2009?

Why not uBlock Origin Lite for Safari? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

One should question why they are being forced to use "Lite" in the first place.

I’ve used AdGuard for years across Macs and iPhones and it works great.

Same. Also works great for the family, kids to grandparents

what's stopping you from using the same extension (ublock origin lite) in safari?

Still haven’t found an ad not bested by NextDNS. Granted, not an ad-blocker extension but it “just works” and blocks ads, so good enough?

wBlock works quite well.

https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock

https://skula.me/project/wblock/

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