uBlock Origin Lite for Safari
PseudorandomNoise (Hacker News):
TLDR uBO Lite is available in Test Flight today for all the Cupertino OS’s
Jen Simmons (Hacker News, Reddit):
Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of developers & other people wish that uBlock Origin was available for Safari. Now it is! Download for Safari 18.6 and Safari 26 beta.
I searched using the exact full name, didn’t see it and assumed the store hadn’t been updated yet – but no! It was actually the sixteenth result!
For the unquoted search, there are twelve different apps/items returned above it - you really have to scroll down to find it at number 13.
Even for the quoted search, it’s returned in fourth place.
It was also really far down in the App Store search results for me.
People should be way more upset at the fact that Safari adblocking today is still inferior to even MV3 Google Chrome. Apple’s implementation of
declarativeNetRequestwas semi-broken until the very latest iOS 18.6.
It’s very possible that the sites you visit do not require any of the filtering capabilities specific to uBO, in which case you won’t see a difference.
Also, mind that by default there is no generic cosmetic filtering in uBOL while this occurs by default in uBO. In uBOL, you will have to raise the blocking mode to Complete to benefit from generic cosmetic filtering.
In general, uBOL will be less effective at dealing with websites using anti-content blocker or minimizing website breakage because many filters can’t be converted into DNR rules (see log of conversion for technical details).
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Because the declarativeNetRequest API does not support the ability to enforce rules according to the top context, i.e. the URL in the address bar, the following capabilities can’t be supported[…]
Previously:
- Magic Lasso Adblock 5.0
- Chrome’s Manifest V3 and uBlock Origin
- Safari 18 Announced
- The Four Types of Safari Extension
- Safari 13 and Extensions
- Chrome to Limit Ad Blocking Extensions
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I've been quite happy with Wipr, the dev is very good with regular updates. It's not free but cheap. I'd be interested in a comparison.
Can’t remember why I chose it because I’ve been using it for so very long across every OS, but AdGuard is good.
Glad to see uBO continue to thrive though because this is absolutely essential functionality these days unfortunately.
