Ad blocker choice for safari

[beachBOYken]

Hey guys

I'm loving my new imac and slowly geting to grips with the os.

I would like to use an ad blocker extension in safari but I'm a bit unsure what to use out of adblock and adblock plus?

Are they both just as good or is one recommended over the other for mac.

Thanks

 

[beachBOYken]

just an update, Im trying Ublock which I have heard is lighter on system resources.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Ublock works very well and makes whitelisting domain and URLs very easy.

 

[beachBOYken]

Ublock works very well and makes whitelisting domain and URLs very easy.

Thanks, seems fine so far.

 

[traveyb]

Do you recommend Ublock over Adblock nowadays? I've never had an issue with Adblock but if it's better I would rather use it

 

[Chugz]

uBlock Origin is fantastic and much lighter on resources than AdBlock.

 

[beachBOYken]

uBlock Origin is fantastic and much lighter on resources than AdBlock.

Is ublock and ublock origin the same thing?

I only got ublock in my safari extension search results.

 

[Rainmaker]

Is ublock and ublock origin the same thing?

I only got ublock in my safari extension search results.

uBlock was originally one project run by a chap called Gorhill. He later gave up the code base to Chris Aljoudi after various personal pressures, but then resurrected his own personal fork to develop at his own pace. The re-forked version is uBlock Origin and Aljoudi kept the uBlock name. They're quite similar, but Origin doesn't have a Safari release.

traveyb: uBlock is much lighter than AdBlock despite using the same lists. In fact a browser with uBlock uses even less resources than a vanilla browser, let alone a browser also running AdBlock. There are some benchmarks/comparisons on the github page.

 

[traveyb]

Perfect cheers Rainmaker, will take a look today. To be honest I have no performance issues (that I know of) however always up for making things quicker

 

[arty]

I would recommend Glimmerblocker as the best solution I have yet encountered.