AdGuard for Safari for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By lohasbai

  BEST Ad Blocker for Mojave

  After upgrading to Mojave, I found Safari has completely changed its mechanism of extensions. All of my ad block plug-ins now only function in very limited manners (no filter setting, no element inspections etc.). And I feel particularly annoyed -- I browse Chinese websites frequently, yet almost all ad blockers would never succeed in removing ads in foreign languages unless you set up filters manually. Yet as I said before, all most all ad blockers under Mojave are too succinct to offer such advanced features. Thankfully, I finally found this lovely, amazing, elegant, useful, powerful AdGuard. The pre-installed language-specific filer lists are totally incredible. To Mojave users, if you're reading this review, pls stop searching for other ad blockers. AdGuard is THE BEST!

  
  
• By PolloTec

  Some annoying bugs, please fix!

  This app appears to do a great job and what it sets out to do, but there is an annoying bug that renders this quite frustrating on a fresh boot: when this app is set to open at login, it does NOT honor the "hide" setting checkbox under System Preferences --> Users and Groups --> Current User --> Login Items --> "hide" checkbox next to AdGuard for Safari. Normally, when the system is rebooted and this box is checked, the app can launch, but without the application window opening in front of the user. Please fix this, so that the app can launch at login without popping up its preferences window each time! Finally, as a feature request, please support Catalina auto dark mode, and please allow for iCloud-based settings syncing... thanks!

  
  
• By Anglewinder

  If it ain't broke, then fix it 'til it is -- avoid this mess

  Use to work great until the last month or two ... Preferences started popping routinely with little guidance as to what the problem is. Message suggests that Safari can only use 50,000 rules ... fine. But the core filters can not be reduced to less than 50,000 rules without breaking functionality. Huh? When did this become a problem I had to deal with? The program provides no REAL guidance. In my opinion it's simply broke. On Jul 19, 2019 I installed the latest version released about 1 week ago which has resulted in constant crashing from this program. I'm not sure what is going on at the software developer, but from my perspective the program no longer works, has continued to get worse (dramatically) and is avoided. I plan on uninstalling this mess.

  
  
• By Aryae C

  Just Installed — Works Great!

  I’ve been very annoyed lately with the growing presence of distracting ads on some of my favorite news sites, like the Washington Post and SFGate. So I just installed AdGuard. I chose to not launch AdGuard at login, but to show the icon in the menu bar. This way, I can turn on AdGuard when I’m on a site where I want it active, such as the Washington Post, and turn it off the rest of the time. It works great! When I turn it on, all the ads disappear. Couldn’t ask for more.

  
  
• By EdCSmith

  Good Set & Forget Ad Blocker

  Clean, simple, and easy to understand. I use on my Windows as well as my iOS devices. Great Microsoft citizen. Recent updates have made this much easier to use via the built in system controls. Also a big handy feature for me is the ability to quickly, permanently block elements on a webpage just by selecting them, great for navigating poorly designed websites with elements that cover others especially on mobile. However 4 out of 5 times when a website won't work or load it's because this is blocking some linked script or tracking redirect, which is sometimes annoying, especially when you have to do it several times every time such a link is clicked, but the app is just doing its job of blocking sketchy connections that I don't want and that's more a fault of the web at large.

  
  

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