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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6/10.5 PPC/Intel
- Date added: August 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 26,393
- Downloads last week: 755
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Built on GPL, the open source and free Safari AdBlock was written with help from the folks who created AdBlock Plus, the popular Firefox plug-in. This iteration for Safari is simple and needs no configuration, although there are a few options for users if they want them. Users can choose from blocking ads in a multitude of languages including English, German, French, Ukranian, Russian, Korean, Chinese, and more. That's about it for customization.
In our extremely scientific testing, whereby scientific we mean utterly and shamelessly empirical, we checked out a few Web sites with big ads including CNN.com, NYTimes.com, and TheOnion.com, and AdBlock successfully killed ads on all three of those sites. Up until now, the best way to block ads in Safari have been pay-for-play options. But for free and open-source goodness, Safari AdBlock is the way to go. Hopefully future versions will have more features, and a few ads did get through in our testing, but by and large this is a very effective ad-blocker.
Publisher's description
From Safari AdBlock :Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari. It is free of charge and under the GPL license. Safari AdBlock is meant to be extremely simple to use: there is nothing to configure, no filter list to manage, no regular expression, it just works out of the box.
What's new in this version:
Snow Leopard compatible.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 11 votes
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Version: Safari AdBlock 0.4.0 RC3
Pros: For Firefox works great, blocks ads
Cons: Doesn't work in Safari.
Summary: This version of AdBlock only if you run Safari in 32-bit mode. The question is, of course, why would you take a browser that runs natively in 64-bit in Snow Leopard and force it to run in 32-bit mode? Unacceptable. If you can't make a plugin that wo... read more >>
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Version: Safari AdBlock 0.4.0 RC3
Pros: didn't work
Cons: didn't work
Summary: installed it, reopened Safari, and still had ads...never worked...
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Version: Safari AdBlock 0.4.0 RC3
"Seems to do just what it says it will."
Pros: non intrusive
Cons: This space intentionally left blank :)
Summary: Says it's gonna block ads, and it does. (I don't know what to write in the 4914 characters I have left to fill.)
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Version: Safari AdBlock 0.4.0 RC3
"Won't let me reply to emails"
Pros: Works well with Firefox.
Cons: The latest Safari version refuses to allow me to reply to emails (Yahoo). When I click reply, it sets up a new message with the previous subject line OK but no copy of it in the body and won't let me type a new message either.
Summary: I've had to disable the previous version for function problems, and now this latest one. I'll stick with Firefox.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Safari AdBlock 0.4.0 RC3
"It almost doesnt work at all."
Pros: it blocked a few ads in the hundreds sites I visited.
Didn't have to configure it.Cons: it doesnt work for 97% of the time.
Summary: This was almost useless to me. i dont recomend this at all (from my user experience)
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