WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari

Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by hknws2023saio on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:37AM (#43206774)

The only thing that is holding me back from not making safari my primary browser is not having an extension like ublock origin. This seems really promising.

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by layer8 on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:06AM (#43207180)

What are you missing specifically? I’ve been pretty happy with Ghostery and AdGuard Pro.

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by nick_ on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:07PM (#43207885)

I've been using AdGuard Pro happily on all my devices for about ten years now. I'm wondering what adding Ghostery to the mix does on Safari?

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by layer8 on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:21PM (#43208057)

Ghostery doesn’t just hide consent banners and blocks tracking cookies, it also automatically opts-out from tracking consent.

https://www.ghostery.com/blog/never-consent-by-ghostery#neve...

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by soraminazuki on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:34PM (#43210201)

Ghostery is the thing you want to block in the first place.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130619042941/https://www.techn...

I see tracking consent opt-outs as pointless and misleading at best because the adtech industry doesn't operate in good faith. Just block them.

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by dylan604 on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:28PM (#43210075)

What trackers actually obey said consent?

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by layer8 on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:38PM (#43214070)

In the EU, they are legally obliged to do so.

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by starfezzy on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:38PM (#43214072)

Well, for starters ublock origin is the gold standard, and it's free, and it's open source, and it's been refined over many years, and etc. etc. etc.

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by Eric_WVGG on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:51AM (#43206990)

I thought Ghostery has been the gold standard for a pretty long time now…?

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by workethics on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:47AM (#43207672)

I'm still surprised by how much inertia there is for Ghostery.

People should have stopped using that extension nearly a decade ago after being sold to an advertising company.

Or after they went closed-source.

Or after they were caught selling user info about blocked ads back to the advertisers so they could figure out how to avoid being blocked.

Or after they started showing their own advertisements to users.

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by pbronez on Friday February 28, 2025 @11:08AM (#43207200)

1blocker works well for me on iOS, iPadOS and MacOS https://1blocker.com/

If you want to use uBlock Origin on Webkit you can do it with Kagi's Orion browser. https://help.kagi.com/orion/browser-extensions/ublock-origin...

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by alemanek on Friday February 28, 2025 @12:32PM (#43208186)

Second the 1Blocker recommendation. Works really well for me for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by lilyball on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:24PM (#43210018)

I've been very happy with Wipr.

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Re:WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari by latexr on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:12AM (#43217516)

The creator of uBlock is again trying to make uBlock Origin Lite work in Safari.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52#issuecom...

They might need some help, not much visible progress since it started.

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