Disable Ads In Safari 7
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Sorry for the lack of posts over the last couple of days, University has got really busy and I had no free time at all to do any post. The weekend however has arrived and I have some free time to do some work. Todays post will be about blocking adverts on websites while using Safari. I find that adverts on web pages are getting more an more annoying and some, inevitably, need to be removed from view.
This plugin for Safari is very similar to one for Firefox, called Adblock Plus. They are both designed to block adverts from view. These can include those really annoying half page ones that pop up, or adverts that make no sense and you don’t want to see. Its also very useful if you run on a limited connection and want to save the bandwidth. Some, especially Flash, adverts take up a lot of bandwidth and you may want to remove them.
To install Safar Adblock, head over to this website. Here you can download and install the plugin. You do need Mac OS X 10.5+ and if you are a Snow Leopard user you have to run Safari in 32-bit mode for the plugin to work. Its a useful little plugin which enables your web surfing to be clutter free.
If you have a similar Safari plugin or one you want to share, please leave a comment below. If you want to learn more from Safari I recommend Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual.
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7 Responses to “Disable Ads In Safari”
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FWIW this product, Safari Adblock, isn’t fully compatible with Snow Leopard (even if they say it is). It only works on SL if you run Safari in 32-bit mode … which for me and many others is a non-starter because it’s not stable in that mode.
There is, however, another related product — I believe it’s a fork of Adblock — which IS compatible with 64-bit mode, Safari Adblocker. I’m using it now and it works fine, with a stable 64-bit Safari.
Apparently the matter of 64-bit compatibility is a severe problem that most developers are, for whatever reason, not willing to deal with. They have 32-bit mode to fall back on and consider this an acceptable way to run Safari on SL. I don’t see this problem being resolved any time soon.
Comment By PsiCop on October 31st, at 6:46 pm
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It is a very useful plugin!! But the fact that it needs Safari on 32 bits is bad.
Comment By Fábio on October 31st, at 7:27 pm
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Agree, no 64 bit is also a no-go for me.
Comment By David on October 31st, at 10:41 pm
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There are no plugins for Safari, Adblock et al use various hacks to interfere with it internals and are seldom very stable.
I have been using Glimmer Blocker for a while now, it is a proxy so it works with Safari, Firefox, Stainless or whatever browser you want to mention, even your iPhone when you are browsing over your local wlan at least.
Comment By Michael on November 1st, at 7:40 am
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i find this rather funny that a site being supported by advertising is showing people how to stop them…i personally don’t use these adblock things…
Comment By Guy on November 3rd, at 2:16 pm
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I use a CSS. Have used the same one for years. It works. Has never (as far as I know) caused a Safari crash.
It is called: AdSubtract.css
You can get it at:
http://code.google.com/p/adsubtract/I just realized there is a newer version available (on the right side of the web page.) My old one was dated from 2006, I think.
Comment By James on November 11th, at 4:19 am
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You used to post almost every day…
Comment By Pedro on November 15th, at 3:39 pm
