What are some Safari extensions you yourself use and/or recommend?
I’ve been using Safari and it only ever since I switched back when the iPhone X came out and never looked back.
I got annoyed by advertisements pretty early and was looking for an adblocker that did not screw up the whole internet.
I’m using AdGuard ever since. It’s good, still blocks YouTube ads, but sadly does not let me read news since a lot of them want me to deactivate it, and news websites over here are quite annoyingly full of ads.
Second I use is Sink It. It makes the internet Reddit website behave a little bit okay-ish. Combined with ad-blocker it’s quite usable.
Third is Hush. A little open source app that kills cookies the way the internet keeps on working.
And the final one I use is honey. It hasn’t saved me a single penny yet, but maybe it might one day perhaps eventually.
I’m happy to read about what extensions you use!
I use a few:
- Adguard (blocking ads).
- Vinegar (blocking YouTube ads and allows me to use iOS video player, with PiP, alongside other options like default video quality).
- SponsorBlock (Skip YouTube ads. Works great without Vinegar, and just okay alongside Vinegar).
- Baking Soda (like Vinegar, allows iOS default video player with other websites which are not YouTube related).
- Userscripts (allows loading scripts into Safari. I mainly use them to bypass some paywalled articles, and restore the YouTube dislikes counter).
Honey’s whole scheme is selling your data. It tracks everything. I don’t use it.
I use Baking Soda and Vinegar and SponsorBlock and Wipr.
The first two basically fix video players on every site: basic HTML player instead of the bloatware most employ.
SponsorBlock for YouTube to cut down on sponsored segments that YouTubers may play in the middle of a video.
Wipr for my ad blocker. It’s been incredibly solid since I first bought it. Big fan.
How does SponsorBlock help if you’re also using Vinegar?
Vinegar blocks the ads, sponsor block like „skips“ the sponsored section within the video, like when someone talks about Raid: Shadow Legends.
like when someone talks about Raid: Shadow Legends
Lol I suspect you and I consume some of the same YT content
Everyone talks about it lol
I once read somewhere that they pay you some 5 figures for that, despite how bad the game is (I played it on day 1 back in the days, sucked after 6 hrs) I can understand why one would accept the sponsorship.
Huh, I kinda thought it was maybe more targeted towards warhammer-tangent content because I see it on a lot of the mini painting/kit bashing/model/terrain building channels I watch and basically nowhere else.
Wait people actually paint them??
I thought you were supposed to build them and then forget them on a shelf where every time you look over you’re reminded that it’s still unfinished
Hah apparently they do. I don’t actually do warhammer models myself. I like scratch building and painting weird robot models out of bits of trash and plastic. So the warhammer painting and kitbashing YT channels out there have a lot of relevant content for me.
That’s because it became such a meme that youtubers started distancing themselves from it.
Wait people actually paint them??
I thought you were supposed to build them and then forget them on a shelf where every time you look over you’re reminded that it’s still unfinished
Hello 👋🏻 fellow AdGuard user here. This extension never gets much mention – people seem to prefer AdBlock and uBlock Origin for whatever reason – but I’m very happy with AdGuard and have used it for years now.
I don’t have any issues reading articles online. I wonder if we’re subscribed to different filter lists.
I believe there’s a filter called “anti-adblocker” or something – I would suggest you enable that if you don’t already have it enabled. My understanding is that it’ll block scripts that check if you have an adblocker – resulting in fewer of those “please disable your adblocker” banners.
Ublock Origin is still the best adblocker (especially if you use Firefox).
Unfortunately, Safari has a lot of limitations regarding this (hence why Adguard has to do a lot of trickery just to make it good enough).
IMO, is still the best for Safari users ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ublock is a better blocker on Firefox, but that support doesn’t exist elsewhere anyway.
A couple I use:
- Amplosion: Created by Apollo dev, Cristian Selig, this extension redirects AMP pages to their normal counterpart
- Super Agent: Automatically sets cookie preferences for you (admittedly doesn’t always work though)
Make sure to go through your AdGuard settings and turn everything on. You should be able to delete hush as one of the optional options in AdGuard does the same thing. Also for news sites that ask you to disable it, try reader mode, if that doesn’t work, tap the aA, tap AdGuard, and tap the element covering the webpage. AdGuard will refresh and hide the element :)
AdGuard Dark Reader xSearch
does not let me read news
This isn’t always an issue with your adblocker. When it comes to bypassing paywalls, I can’t recommend 12ft.io and archive.is enough.
Wipr : AdBlock (Ghostery used to much resources) TemperMonkey : UserScripts Hush : Anti Cookie Banner HTTPS4ALL : https Noir : DarkMode
Another vote for Wipr here
I use Adguard as well.
Also use the Consent-O-Matic extension to never be bothered again because of the cookies.
Dark Reader is also a must for me.
I use Auto HD + FPS as well for YT, because somehow when YT on Mac is set as auto in the quality options it never gets to 1080p, this annoying behavior was fixed with this extension.
At least you created a very unique fingerprint so websites and big tech can follow you 😜
Can you please explain further?
Extensions can leak information to websites but it depends on the specific one.
I think the value of an adblocker is easily worth it.
