Safari 3 AdBlock: no internet ads for me please

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Safari 3 AdBlock: no internet ads for me please

by Danny Mendez Dec 16th 2007

Safari 3 AdBlock: no internet ads for me please

The world of web browsers is a very unfair place. Internet Explorer isn't the best, yet everyone's using it, and it seems like Firefox gets all the cool add-ons and customizations. The Opera web browser is popular, but primarily with the mobile crowd, and as for Safari, well, it's nice. Safari add-ons aren't exactly the latest craze, but the few that exist are fairly useful.

Introducing: Safari AdBlock, the open source way to avoid internet ads. It's free and (like someone we know on too much rum) easy. To install, simply point your browser to the Safari AdBlock page at SourceForge and hit "Download." The rest is pretty self explanatory. Safari AdBlock should successfully block most ads, although one may get through on occasion. Theoretically, this should decrease a page's load time since you'll no longer have to load ads, but there's a lot that goes into load times so you may not see any increase in performance at all.

Safari AdBlock works with Safari 3 and runs on Leopard (not Tiger and Windows). Those looking for a paid option should check out Pith Helmet, which costs $10 and works with both Tiger and Leopard. If you'd like to further customize your Safari, check out Pimp My Safari.

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Tags: ad block, adblock, add on, add ons, AddOn, AddOns, ads, advertising, avoid, customization, customizations, customize, safari

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

nikescream said 12:54PM on 12-16-2007

Only works with 10.5+...

Noodlez said 1:21PM on 12-16-2007

Kind of funny you guys telling people how to remove ads. Anyway on the windows front my fav option is admuncher http://admuncher.com/ works with just about any internet app however it is not free.

don said 1:56AM on 12-17-2007

No where nearly as good as Adblock for Firefox. The entire page loads with the ads (that you have to see) before it removes the ad from the page. Plus you can't even edit the block lists.

Might get better in in later versions.

PithHelmet is much better.

Rick said 4:15AM on 2-04-2008

Safari Adblock 0.3.1 stuffed my safari, it becaome unresponsive, nothing but blank pages Uninstalled, all good again.

thanks, not.

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