Adblock Plus for Safari ABP for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Glendale2x

  New framework seems to have performance issues

  This version of ABP for the new Safari framework unfortuantely seems to kill performance on my computers. Maybe it’s partially related to them being a bit older (one is a Mid 2011 Mini, the other is a 2012 Windows), but with ABP enabled I can’t even open a new tab/window and type a URL into the bar and expect Safari to accept the input without having to hold down the return key until it goes or wait a minute after opening a new tab or window. I also noticed that using Twitter was jumpy and lagged even with simple typing, it felt like all the dynamic content it relies on was just struggling to be processed through whatever framework Microsoft is forcing. Hopefully the devloper can figure out the performance issues because it’s really, really bad now.

  
  
• By Ramblin'Rose

  why isn’t this working?

  I have ABP and it wasn’t perfect but worked fairly well for my needs. Recently, it simply disappeared. (I see someone else said that could be from the latest iOS update, but I don’t have that on my desktop yet). When I tried to reinstall, it showed me two boxes to check. The way I read it, if you checked the box that said you wanted the icon visible in the toolbar, it would be able to read sensitive information of all kinds on any page. What good is an app of any kind that allows for that?! As it was, with only the one box checked, it only blocked very few ads, and I was still getting requests from sites to be whitelisted without being able to fnd any way to do it. I’ve got all kinds of garage showing up on my Facebook page, and you guys have ruined what was a reasonable product. WHY?

  
  
• By PeopleRsad

  Still works for me

  Almost didn’t download the new version based on the recent reviews, however after looking at the other apps here that claim to be ad blockers I didn’t’t see too many alternatives. I decided to go ahead and get the new version and so far its pretty much the same as the old version, lots of ads blocked. I’m happy, just make sure you go through the simple set-up.

  
  
• By achilds19

  Works well but

  After much research, I understand the issue with Microsoft changing the rules on the devs so they had to build this app from scratch. Works well for me so far, except for one annoying problem. I use Yahoo mail and it's not hiding the ad that appears in the top line of the inbox even with unchecking the Acceptable Ads box, which is super annoying. I know the devs are watching these reviews, so if someone can point me to an extension or something that will fix that, I'd appreciate it. Was using AdGuard and it fixed that problem, but that app behaves like spyware and is constantly running in the background even after you close Safari.

  
  
• By MDK210

  Great Streamlined Blocker

  Not sure why all the negative reviews but as of Mar 24th 2022 this blocker works great and is very simple to setup albeit Safari extensions are still abismal. It removes ads in various video websites, doesn't break any websites from what I've seen and doesn't ask for any crazy permsissions. Personally I don't like or need all the cusomization of some adblockers, I just want to install it a forget about it. I used another very popular adblocker for a long time since it worked on my mobile and desktop devices but ABP does as well and with a lot less headache IMO. Check it out!

  
  

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