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Re:UBlock Origin for Safari by LeoPanthera on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:17AM (#13112622)
The whole point of the content blocking API is to protect the users privacy. Without it, the plugin gets to see every single web page you visit, and its contents, and could do anything with that information.

I've been using 1Blocker which, while not free, uses the API and seems to work very well. (And can sync your block settings with the iOS.)

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Re:UBlock Origin for Safari by stephenr on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @09:08AM (#13114632)
Agreed. Content blockers are also not executing js code for every resource the page tries to load: it's just the defined blocking rules that get processed.

I'm also using 1blocker. Lacking an existing site (or time to build one myself) for sharing 1blocker packages, I've started storing them here: https://bitbucket.org/stephenreay/1blocker-packages

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Re:UBlock Origin for Safari by fredsir on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:02AM (#13112979)
It works very well indeed!
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