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AdGuard for Safari 4+

Adblock and privacy, adguard software limited.

• 4.6 • 21.5K Ratings

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More than 35,000,000 AdGuard users enjoy the better, faster, and safer Internet. The ad blocker extension clears all ads in Safari and fights data tracking to protect privacy. Unlike other major ad blockers, AdGuard provides some extra features you are used to having with the traditional (now deprecated) extensions: ● Manage protection from Safari ● Choose among popular filter lists ● Add custom filter lists ● Create your own filtering rules ● Manual blocking tool ● Whitelist websites in one click AdGuard for Safari is based on the Safari native content blocking API, which makes it lightning fast. KEY FEATURES ◈ Blocking Ads Remove all kinds of ads from Safari browser easily. We have plenty of ad blocking filters and even an ability to manually remove ANY element on the page that you don't like. ◈ Blocking Trackers Make your personal information protected by blocking known trackers. ◈ Blocking Annoyances Tired of all the «Like» buttons and similar widgets infesting all of your frequented web pages? Just enable AdGuard "Social Media filter" and forget about them. ◈ Faster Browsing Speed By preventing ads, annoyances, and trackers from loading when you visit a certain page, AdGuard makes browsing smoother and faster. ◈ Free and Open Source AdGuard for Safari is a free and open source software. The source code is available on Github: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForSafari

Version 1.11.17

As Sigmund Freud used to say: “Sometimes a new version is just a new version”. This time, we've gone with the standard set of changes: updated scriptlets, translations, and filters — without pomp and fanfare, but with a great sense of responsibility.

Ratings and Reviews

21.5K Ratings

Good Set & Forget Ad Blocker

Clean, simple, and easy to understand. I use on my Mac as well as my iOS devices. Great Apple citizen. Recent updates have made this much easier to use via the built in system controls. Also a big handy feature for me is the ability to quickly, permanently block elements on a webpage just by selecting them, great for navigating poorly designed websites with elements that cover others especially on mobile. However 4 out of 5 times when a website won't work or load it's because this is blocking some linked script or tracking redirect, which is sometimes annoying, especially when you have to do it several times every time such a link is clicked, but the app is just doing its job of blocking sketchy connections that I don't want and that's more a fault of the web at large.

Some annoying bugs, please fix!

This app appears to do a great job and what it sets out to do, but there is an annoying bug that renders this quite frustrating on a fresh boot: when this app is set to open at login, it does NOT honor the "hide" setting checkbox under System Preferences --> Users and Groups --> Current User --> Login Items --> "hide" checkbox next to AdGuard for Safari. Normally, when the system is rebooted and this box is checked, the app can launch, but without the application window opening in front of the user. Please fix this, so that the app can launch at login without popping up its preferences window each time! Finally, as a feature request, please support Catalina auto dark mode, and please allow for iCloud-based settings syncing... thanks!

BEST Ad Blocker for Mojave

After upgrading to Mojave, I found Safari has completely changed its mechanism of extensions. All of my ad block plug-ins now only function in very limited manners (no filter setting, no element inspections etc.). And I feel particularly annoyed -- I browse Chinese websites frequently, yet almost all ad blockers would never succeed in removing ads in foreign languages unless you set up filters manually. Yet as I said before, all most all ad blockers under Mojave are too succinct to offer such advanced features. Thankfully, I finally found this lovely, amazing, elegant, useful, powerful AdGuard. The pre-installed language-specific filer lists are totally incredible. To Mojave users, if you're reading this review, pls stop searching for other ad blockers. AdGuard is THE BEST!

App Privacy

The developer, Adguard Software Limited , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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The most advanced ad blocking extension for Safari

Free and open source, highly customizable and lightning fast ad blocking extension.

AdGuard for Safari

Ad blocking extensions for Safari are having hard time since Apple started to force everyone to use the new SDK. AdGuard extension is supposed to bring back the high quality ad blocking back to Safari.

Unlike other major ad blockers, AdGuard provides some extra features you are used to have with the traditional (now deprecated) extensions:

• Managing protection from Safari
• Choose among popular filter subscription
• Custom filters
• Creating your own filtering rules
• Manual blocking tool
• Allowlisting websites

AdGuard for Safari is based on the Safari native content blocking API, which makes it lightning fast, but somewhat limited in capabilities. For instance, Safari limits the number of rules a content blocker can have.

Better yet, there is a full-fledged AdGuard for Mac

With all above said, there is a solution that is even more effective than AG Safari extension. I mean, of course, AdGuard for Mac . It can:

• filter your traffic in all browsers and apps on your Mac
• have an unlimited number of filter rules
• provide a better filtering quality (due to the lack of browser API restrictions)

You can try it out for free .

How to build AdGuard for Safari

AdGuard for Safari consists of three parts:

• An Electron application.
• Safari Content Blocker extension
• Safari Toolbar icon extension

Prerequisites

• MacOS 13.1 or above
• Xcode 14.3 or above
• Xcode Command Line Tools
• Node.js v18.17.1 or higher

Also, you need to install these packages globally:

• electron-packager
• electron-osx-sign

How to build

To run application in development mode.

Install local dependencies by running:

How to debug the app

Debug window.

Launch the application via:

Open menu View -> Toggle Developer Tools

Debug main process

Launch the application via

Open URI chrome://inspect in Chromium

Then add a network target localhost:5858 via button "Configure" and select this target below.

Build and run in production mode

Replace the following line in file ./AdGuard/Config.xcconfig

where <YOUR APPLE DEVELOPER COMMON NAME> is your codesign identity

Make sure your system Nodejs version higher v8.9.4.

Steps to check it: if you use nvm run

Open AdGuard.xcworkspace in Xcode and run building project

How to run tests

Preparing and building adguard., environment requirements.

• MacOS 13.1+
• Xcode 14.3+
• Install Xcode command line tools
• Install the ruby module bundler if it is not in the system
• Fastlane manages development and distribution certificates according to the documentation described in fastlane match . The file ./fastlane/env.default contains variables ( SENSITIVE_VARS_PATH , APP_STORE_CONNECT_API_KEY_PATH ) that define the paths to files with private information necessary for fastlane match to work. Create these files in a hidden location with the appropriate contents and specify their paths in the these variables.
• You need to run the configure.sh dev script, which will install the necessary components and certificates locally.

Check certificates names in Scripts/ExportOptions.plist

SafariConverterLib dependency

For converting rules to content-blocker format we use an external library as a binary built from https://github.com/AdguardTeam/SafariConverterLib/ , that ConverterTool binary should be placed in ./libs/ .

You use ./Scripts/download-lib.sh to download the latest release version of that binary from Github.

Common issues

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution/resolving_common_notarization_issues

Use fixed electron-osx-sign

How to release standalone builds

• update version package.json and AdGuard/standalone.xcconfig or AdGuard/standalone-beta.xcconfig
• notarize builds
• publish release on Github
• refresh updates/updates.json and release.json in gh-pages branch

Build application

• mas -- Mac App Store
• beta -- standalone beta
• release -- standalone release
• [--notarize=0] -- optional parameter to skip notarization

Output directory build contains:

• Adguard for Safari.app -- signed and notarized app.
• Adguard for Safari.app.zip -- zip of signed and notarized app.
• Adguard for Safari.xcarchive -- app archive.
• Adguard for Safari.xcarchive.zip -- zip of app archive
• version.txt -- version info (CI requirement).
• updates.json -- json file with updates info.
• release.json -- json file with updates info.

Clean install

• Disable all AdGuard for Safari extensions in Safari browser settings and close browser
• Close AdGuard for Safari
• ~/Library/Application Support/AdGuardSafariApp
• ~/Library/Containers/ - all directories started with com.adguard.safari.AdGuard (if there’s any)
• ~/Library/GroupContainers/TC3Q7MAJXF.com.adguard.safari.AdGuard
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.plist
• Quit all “AdGuard” and “cfprefsd” processes in Activity monitor
• Reinstall AdGuard for Safari

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