- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.6
- Date added: August 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 19,632
- Downloads last week: 456
- See full specifications
- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 7 votes
See all user reviews
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.
More popular Other Browser Add-ons & Plugins downloads
- 3,225 downloads 1. Adobe Flash Player
- 456 downloads 2. Safari AdBlock
- 208 downloads 3. Flash Player (Intel-based)
- 126 downloads 4. Microsoft Silverlight
- 115 downloads 5. Garmin Communicator Plugin
- See all Other Browser Add-ons & Plugins downloads
User reviews
- Average user rating: 0 stars Not yet available
- My rating: 0 stars Write review
-
Showing 1 of 1 user reviewSee 1 user review
This software version | All versions -
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)
- See 1 user review Write review
Submit your review
- See more CNET content tagged:
- open source
Previous Versions:
