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!

  • ojmcelderry
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Tick Dracy@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      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)_/¯