Adblock Plus for Safari
Thanks to Safari Adblock, I can finally use Safari as my main browser.
Safari Adblock, as the name suggests, is a Safari preference pane utility for blocking ads. The best part is that it automatically synchronizes with the Adblock Plus online ad database, eliminating the need for you to write individual regular expressions for each group of ads you want to block.
Safari Adblock is pretty cool, but is not hiding as many elements as Adblock Plus does for Firefox.
That is rather unfortunate if one wants to switch.
The reason for not hiding these elements seems to be that the possibility to do so just isn’t implemented. The elements are actually in the loaded database but not blocked…
Can you give an example URL and ad? I’d like to test it on Safari and Firefox.
If you find anything out, please let me know. I’m hoping to switch to Safari since v4 can now do 100/100 on the Acid3 test.
@slonkak
Safari Adblock Plus is working great on Safari 4 for me.
Kevin,
Try this url with adblock in Firefox and adblock in Safari. Notice “Story continues below” still appears.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31208188/
-Josh
Hmm, I tried adding a custom filter, and it didn’t work. Perhaps it has something to do with the ad being loaded through javascript?
Anyways, Adblock on Safari works with pretty much all other ads.
It doesn’t seem to block the ads on facebook (the “sponsored” block near the top-right of the page), which AdBlockPlus on Firefox does. As another example. :-)
Another example: the IMDB.com site – which is, sadly, running large Flash banners on top of the page. They appear in Safari, not Firefox, using AdBlock.
Meant to say, “…using AdBlock Plus.”