There are plenty more on the mac app store, have a look if none of these suit.AdBlock for Safari (made by BETAFISH INC) - Yet another acceptable ads-supporting blocker which just uses easylist.Is instead identical to AdBlock Plus in all but name including acceptable ads. uBlock - Don't at all associated with uBO or the code which uBO contains.Uses Easylist so otherwise is identical to Ka-Block!. Some of these ads, imo, are not acceptable, and I don't consider any trackers acceptable. AdBlock Plus for Safari - Supports acceptable ads, a pay-to-play ad allowing system which allows certain ads and trackers which meet guidelines and pay AdBlock Plus.Apparently Ka-Block doesn't work for youtube (wipr does), and Wipr uses 3 extensions to get around the limit in rules. Don't see any advantage in this over Ka-block (see above) for an extra $1.99. Does cost after a trial, see here for prices. Fully featured system wide adblocker, contains custom lists and element picker. Pretty sure it's just a wrapper for easylist, but it's a good option if you mind paying for 1Blocker. 1Blocker has switched to a subscription model, even for people who already paid for it. Update 2: 1Blocker has said that it will be a free upgrade to 1BlockerX from the current version, so there isn't any reason to wait if you want it. I cannot reccomend buying an app now which will soon be obsolete. 1Blocker has teased 1BlockerX for Mac, which will be a paid upgrade. This is the best option if you don't mind paying. 1Blocker, by far the most powerful, with custom rules and an element picker. AdGuard also uses the same lists and filter syntax as uBO, making migration easier. ( Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin (and other blockers) for Safari #158 (comment)). AdGuard's performance is quite controversial, read discussion. Doesnt always have the best performance (though this has apparently been fixed). Adguard for Safari, very good blocking and free.Here are some recomendations of content blockers: It shares no code with uBO and has no advantages over any other content blocking app. Do not get the app called "uBlock", this is unassociated with uBlockOrigin ( read about the split here), and is simply a content blocker with a big negative feature of having acceptable ads built in (which is AdBlockPlus's pay-to-play ad and tracker unblocking program). Not nearly as powerful as uBO, but the best option if you want to stay with Safari. This will come to the stable version, hopefully in time for uBO-Safari's eol. If battery life is an issue for you get Firefox Beta, Nightly or Developer which has massive battery life improvements to bring it on par with Safari / Chrome being tested (note: somewhat unstable). Chrome will itself be ending support for uBlockOrigin soon. If you choose this, I strongly recomend Firefox. Update: It appears that it is not possible to install uBO permanently, it will always uninstall on a restart of Safari. This will stop working with macOS Catalina (coming "this fall"). If you don't have uBO installed, and wish to install on a pre-Catalina version of Safari, Download the latest (and final) release here and follow these instructions to install it. Anybody with uBO currently installed, it won't be removed until you update to Safari 13. For the moment continue to use Safari 12 with uBlockOrigin.If you are a current user of uBlock Origin for Safari here are the options to continue blocking ads: It will not possible for uBlock Origin to work with the upcoming Safari 13 / macOS Catalina release Though it is still curently possible to install uBlock Origin by downloading the extension from Github (edit: must follow these instructions, it will not be starting from Safari 13 / macOS Catalina, when the legacy entension API will be fully deprecated. Safari also recently shut their Extension Gallery, instead redirecting it to the mac app store. From Safari 12 / macOS Mojave, old legacy Safari extensions were still allowed, but came with warnings saying that they will slow down your browsing (they infact won't, or at least not noticably). Since then Apple has begun phasing out Safari extensions as extensions, and has instead been implenting a new extensions framework which is extremley limited in adblocking functions, only allowing "content blockers", which are just links bundled as an app which Safari enforces. UBlock Origin was ported for Safari in 2016, and was updated regulary (mostly changes from the main project) until 2018 when development completley stopped. This should answer all questions on the status of uBO for safari. In the past few months, and especially in the past week, there have been a lot of posts and comments questioning the status of uBlock Origin for Safari. Very quick tl dr: uBO will no longer work with Safari, use Firefox or a new "content blocker" app (see below for good replacements).
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