[nikomen]

I’ve considered switching to Safari on my Mac because I had heard that it has stellar performance. However, with no support for uBlock Origin because of their incomplete implementation of the extensions API, and now these UI changes, it looks like I’ll stick with Firefox.

I still plan to stay with my Mac because of the ecosystem. I’m one of the few who seems to actually like Windows 10. There are warts in Microsoft’s software, just as there are in Apple’s. But I like having my iPhone integrated with my Mac. The only option on Windows is Android phone integration. I’m trying to remove myself from Google’s ecosystem, though.

[freediver]

You can try Orion, which is based on a WebKit fork and has experimental support Chrome/Firefox extensions, including uBlock Origin.

[throayobviousl]

Adguard is 99% the same, and free, and on iOS.

[wintermutestwin]

Adguard is NOT free. Beyond that, it is the worst plague of the modern computing age - subscription.

An ad blocker has access to extremely invasive data and Adblock wants me to pay them a subscription so they can get my PII and associate it with my browsing?

It is also not Open Source so I can't rely on the hope that someone smarter than me would have caught its dirty tricks.

I use Safari for a tiny subset of my browsing due to this gaping hole...

[pram]

Adguard for Safari is both free and open source

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari

[wintermutestwin]

You are right - I searched "adblock safari."

[kruuuder]

Ad blockers on Safari are apparently unable to block YouTube ads, due to API limitations.

I wish Firefox wouldn't excessively drain the battery on macOS, and Chrome wouldn't excessively drain personal data to Google, and Brave wouldn't excessively violate the trust of its users.

As of today, there's not a single browser on macOS that I don't strongly dislike. Looks like Safari won't improve soon.

[pram]

Adguard blocks YouTube ads. Maybe actually try it before dismissing it lol

[kruuuder]

I tried 1blocker and Wipr. Both failed to block YouTube ads due to said API limitations (as confirmed by their devs).

If it's in fact an API limitation, why bother trying yet another blocker? After your reply, I did a quick search for Adguard and found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Adguard/comments/nahkk4/adguard_not...

[PeterisP]

Is it free? I'm looking at the Mac download now and it says that it's a 14-day trial with a monthly subscription afterwards, and I'm not entirely happy with relying on a subscription-based service.

[pram]

Adguard for Safari is free. Adguard for Mac is a separate thing (that costs money)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-for-safari/id144014725...

[michelb]

It is not. But you can buy a cheap lifetime family account for Adguard on stacksocial for $20/$29. (not affiliated, but extremely happy user, been using it for years)

[saagarjha]

AdGuard runs an Electron app in the background, though.