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What is a good ad blocker like this for Safari?

I use 1Blocker. It exists for both macOS and iOS. It uses Safari's native content blocking API, so it's supposedly fast. As far as I know, the developer is not engaged in any shady dealings with ad companies. The only downside is that it's not free.

The Dev did something shady on iOS by releasing a second version just because he split up the lists.

His argumentations don't seem shady to me: https://backstage.1blocker.com/say-hello-to-1blocker-x-8b55e...

Safari now has excellent privacy features, so I just don’t block ads, allowing the people creating the content I consume to, you know, eat.

uBlock exists also for Safari, however you need to download it through the App Store these days. https://www.ublock.org/safari/

That’s not uBlock Origin, that’s the icky one. I use the AdGuard extension for desktop Safari, and the app for mobile Safari, which use the content blocking feature of Safari itself.

My bad, thanks for the clarification. As @heartbreak pointed out, this seems to be the real deal https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.el1t.uBl...

That's.. also not exactly the real deal. It's a community fork of uBlock Origin with some patches and then became unmaintained. That's why I use AdGuard for Safari.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/adguard-for-safari/id1440147259

https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1047223162

These two.

This is the correct link for uBlock Origin from the Safari Extension site: https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.el1t.uBl...

The one linked by fragebogen is the non-origin version which you probably do not want to use.

Any idea why I can access this extension through Apple's webpage, but not through the App Store? The App Store only shows the non-Origin uBlock.

Apologies for the week late reply. Apple has classified this extension as one which might slow your browsing down (of course it does, though the impact is imperceptible to me). Because of that, it’s not only unlisted but also will show a warning banner in Preferences after install, and will occasionally be disabled by Safari updates.

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