Explanation of the state of uBlock Origin (and other blockers) for Safari

Very quick tl;dr: uBO will no longer work with Safari, use Firefox or a new "content blocker" app (see below for good replacements). In the past few months, and especially in the past week, there have been a lot of posts and comments questioning the status of [uBlock Origin for Safari](https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari). This should answer all questions on the status of uBO for safari. uBlock Origin was ported for Safari in 2016, and was updated regulary (mostly changes from the main project) until 2018 when development completley stopped. Since then Apple has begun phasing out Safari extensions as extensions, and has instead been implenting a new extensions framework which is extremley limited in adblocking functions, only allowing "content blockers", which are just links bundled as an app which Safari enforces. From Safari 12 / macOS Mojave, old legacy Safari extensions were still allowed, but came with warnings saying that they will slow down your browsing (they infact won't, or at least not noticably). Safari also recently shut their Extension Gallery, instead redirecting it to the mac app store. Though it is still curently possible to install uBlock Origin [by downloading the extension from Github](https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/releases/download/1.16.0/uBlock0.safariextz) (edit: must follow [these instructions](http://osxdaily.com/2019/02/08/bypass-safari-no-longer-supports-unsafe-extension-error-mac/), it will not be starting from Safari 13 / macOS Catalin

Posted by ghost on Sep 8, 2019, 9:29 AM

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• reliability (SaaS)

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