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AdGuard for Safari 4+

Adblock and privacy, adguard software limited.

• 4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

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Description.

More than 35,000,000 AdGuard users enjoy the better, faster, and safer Internet. The ad blocker extension clears all ads in Safari and fights data tracking to protect privacy. Unlike other major ad blockers, AdGuard provides some extra features you are used to having with the traditional (now deprecated) extensions: ● Manage protection from Safari ● Choose among popular filter lists ● Add custom filter lists ● Create your own filtering rules ● Manual blocking tool ● Whitelist websites in one click AdGuard for Safari is based on the Safari native content blocking API, which makes it lightning fast. KEY FEATURES ◈ Blocking Ads Remove all kinds of ads from Safari browser easily. We have plenty of ad blocking filters and even an ability to manually remove ANY element on the page that you don't like. ◈ Blocking Trackers Make your personal information protected by blocking known trackers. ◈ Blocking Annoyances Tired of all the «Like» buttons and similar widgets infesting all of your frequented web pages? Just enable AdGuard "Social Media filter" and forget about them. ◈ Faster Browsing Speed By preventing ads, annoyances, and trackers from loading when you visit a certain page, AdGuard makes browsing smoother and faster. ◈ Free and Open Source AdGuard for Safari is a free and open source software. The source code is available on Github: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForSafari

Version 1.11.18

The filter developers said that this version blocks ads more effectively thanks to updated Scriptlets. Should we take their word for it or get the new version and see for ourselves?

Ratings and Reviews

2.2K Ratings

The ad blocker of my dream

Its design is perfect. It performs great. Its symbol in Safari looks native. When using it, I get a feeling that I'm using a product created by Apple, it just feels so native to the OS and to Safari.

Nice app but has some drawbacks

I've been using AdGuard for a couple of months and I liked it -- it does its job. It blocks most of the ads (not all of them but most, including video ads). It is even better than its competitors to be honest -- that's why it was my choice in the first place. On the other side there are two major drawbacks that led me to uninstalling it: 1. I couldn't disable "Launch at startup" option. After reboot the setting just reset itself and ran AdGuard at startup again. I couldn't remove it neither from application UI nor from Login items in System settings. 2. If the application launches at startup it freezes and the only option to unfreeze it is to force quit. I run MacOS Catalina. It hasn't been an issue for a while but got really annoying after two months. This forced me to consider other adblockers as an option. However, I must emphasize that as a blocker AdGuard is really effective, and if you're ok with handling some incovenient stuff, I would really recommend this app.

Best adblocker for Safari (from what remained)

uBlock Origin was WAY better, but since Apple does no longer allows it to do the job, AdGuard is best among the apps that remained and still working with Safari

App Privacy

The developer, Adguard Software Limited , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Filtering doesn’t work and ads aren’t blocked

This article is about AdGuard for Safari, which safeguards only your Safari browser. To protect your entire device, download the AdGuard app

In some cases, filtering may not work and ads may still be displayed even though AdGuard for Safari and the proper filters are enabled. This usually happens when something goes wrong with filter updates due to Safari bugs.

How to fix ​

• Open Safari.
• Click Safari in the left upper corner menu.
• Click Settings… → Extensions .

• Restart Safari.
• Return to Settings... → Extensions and re-enable the content-blocking extensions.
• Open AdGuard for Safari app.
• Go to Filters .
• Click Check for updates .
• Do not close the AdGuard for Safari window until the filters are updated.

If this doesn’t help and ads are still not being blocked, please contact our support at [email protected] .

If you only have problems with a specific page or website, you can report it directly from the browser: click the AdGuard for Safari icon next to the Safari search bar, and then click Report an issue .

Uninstall AdGuard Extension for Safari

AdGuard is a program that helps to block advertising while surfing the net. Today we want to take a look at what’s needed when you want to remove AdGuard from your Safari browser. In this article, you will learn how to manage the AdGuard ad blocker and two ways to uninstall the AdGuard extension for Safari.

• How to manage the AdGuard Ad Blocker for Safari.
• How to delete the AdGuard Safari extension manually.
• How to uninstall the AdGuard extension for Safari automatically.

Manage AdGuard Ad Blocker for Safari

If you want to completely remove AdGuard from your Mac, you can skip this part and go to the next two points of this article. If you would like to learn how to manage AdGuard on your computer, here is how.

The AdGuard extension for Safari is located in your Applications folder. Once you run it, it adds one icon to the Safari browser next to the search bar and another one to the Status Menus. These icons are connected, so when you launch AdGuard in Safari, the AdGuard app automatically runs on your Mac, and vice versa.

If you wish to pause the AdGuard extension, you need to click on the AdGuard icon on the left side from the Safari search bar, and then click on the Pause AdGuard button.

To enable AdGuard adblocker, click on its icon in Safari and click the Start Protection button to activate it.

To stop AdGuard, click on the AdGuard icon in the Menu bar and untick Enable AdGuard. By the way, you can manage filters such as spyware, social widgets, cookies and more in the app’s Preferences. You will find the Preferences in the drop-down menu.

To stop the extension completely, go to the Safari menu bar → Preferences → Extensions tab → untick AdGuard and AdGuard Safari Icon .

Delete the AdGuard Safari extension manually

To remove the AdGuard extension for Safari completely but manually, take the following steps:

Here, in the user’s Library folder, detect all files and folders that contain AdGuard in their titles and remove them. Look for the remains of AdGuard in the following subfolders:

In the main Library folder, you can also find some of the AdGuard leftovers. Open the Library folder in Finder and check to see if there is the next subfolder and delete it:

• Macintosh/Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Application Support/com.adguard.Adguard

• Empty the Trash bin to entirely complete the AdGuard removal.

Unfortunately, it is hard to predict where exactly you can find the remains of different applications. Therefore, we recommend that you use the free software tool, Funter , which helps to find files by name, including the hidden ones. Just launch Funter, type the name of the application or the developer’s name and hit Enter.

Uninstall the AdGuard extension for Safari automatically

Luckily, you can skip all previous steps and remove AdGuard in just a few clicks. Thanks to App Cleaner & Uninstaller , you can completely get rid of more than 1,000 applications on your Mac. This application requires only 48.9MB and is compatible with OS X 10.10 and later. App Cleaner & Uninstaller has an intuitive interface and removes apps quickly and correctly. Complete the following steps to delete AdGuard using App Cleaner & Uninstaller:

• Launch App Cleaner & Uninstaller. For your convenience, sort the items by name, size or date, or use a search field for a quick scan result.

• Complete the deletion of the AdGuard extension on your Mac by emptying the Trash bin.

It’s only your decision to choose a manual or automatic method to remove AdGuard from Mac. But, if you want to save time and be sure that you have deleted AdGuard correctly and completely, we recommend using App Cleaner & Uninstaller.

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Update v. 8.2.7 March 5, 2024

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AdGuard for Safari app extension

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The most advanced ad blocking extension for Safari

Free and open source, highly customizable and lightning fast ad blocking extension.

AdGuard for Safari

Ad blocking extensions for Safari are having hard time since Apple started to force everyone to use the new SDK. AdGuard extension is supposed to bring back the high quality ad blocking back to Safari.

Unlike other major ad blockers, AdGuard provides some extra features you are used to have with the traditional (now deprecated) extensions:

• Managing protection from Safari
• Choose among popular filter subscription
• Custom filters
• Creating your own filtering rules
• Manual blocking tool
• Allowlisting websites

AdGuard for Safari is based on the Safari native content blocking API, which makes it lightning fast, but somewhat limited in capabilities. For instance, Safari limits the number of rules a content blocker can have.

Better yet, there is a full-fledged AdGuard for Mac

With all above said, there is a solution that is even more effective than AG Safari extension. I mean, of course, AdGuard for Mac . It can:

• filter your traffic in all browsers and apps on your Mac
• have an unlimited number of filter rules
• provide a better filtering quality (due to the lack of browser API restrictions)

You can try it out for free .

How to build AdGuard for Safari

AdGuard for Safari consists of three parts:

• An Electron application.
• Safari Content Blocker extension
• Safari Toolbar icon extension

Prerequisites

• MacOS 13.1 or above
• Xcode 14.3 or above
• Xcode Command Line Tools
• Node.js v18.17.1 or higher

Also, you need to install these packages globally:

• electron-packager
• electron-osx-sign

How to build

To run application in development mode.

Install local dependencies by running:

How to debug the app

Debug window.

Launch the application via:

Open menu View -> Toggle Developer Tools

Debug main process

Launch the application via

Open URI chrome://inspect in Chromium

Then add a network target localhost:5858 via button "Configure" and select this target below.

Build and run in production mode

Replace the following line in file ./AdGuard/Config.xcconfig

where <YOUR APPLE DEVELOPER COMMON NAME> is your codesign identity

Make sure your system Nodejs version higher v8.9.4.

Steps to check it: if you use nvm run

Open AdGuard.xcworkspace in Xcode and run building project

How to run tests

Preparing and building adguard., environment requirements.

• MacOS 13.1+
• Xcode 14.3+
• Install Xcode command line tools
• Install the ruby module bundler if it is not in the system
• Fastlane manages development and distribution certificates according to the documentation described in fastlane match . The file ./fastlane/env.default contains variables ( SENSITIVE_VARS_PATH , APP_STORE_CONNECT_API_KEY_PATH ) that define the paths to files with private information necessary for fastlane match to work. Create these files in a hidden location with the appropriate contents and specify their paths in the these variables.
• You need to run the configure.sh dev script, which will install the necessary components and certificates locally.

Check certificates names in Scripts/ExportOptions.plist

SafariConverterLib dependency

For converting rules to content-blocker format we use an external library as a binary built from https://github.com/AdguardTeam/SafariConverterLib/ , that ConverterTool binary should be placed in ./libs/ .

You use ./Scripts/download-lib.sh to download the latest release version of that binary from Github.

Common issues

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution/resolving_common_notarization_issues

Use fixed electron-osx-sign

How to release standalone builds

• update version package.json and AdGuard/standalone.xcconfig or AdGuard/standalone-beta.xcconfig
• notarize builds
• publish release on Github
• refresh updates/updates.json and release.json in gh-pages branch

Build application

• mas -- Mac App Store
• beta -- standalone beta
• release -- standalone release
• [--notarize=0] -- optional parameter to skip notarization

Output directory build contains:

• Adguard for Safari.app -- signed and notarized app.
• Adguard for Safari.app.zip -- zip of signed and notarized app.
• Adguard for Safari.xcarchive -- app archive.
• Adguard for Safari.xcarchive.zip -- zip of app archive
• version.txt -- version info (CI requirement).
• updates.json -- json file with updates info.
• release.json -- json file with updates info.

Clean install

• Disable all AdGuard for Safari extensions in Safari browser settings and close browser
• Close AdGuard for Safari
• ~/Library/Application Support/AdGuardSafariApp
• ~/Library/Containers/ - all directories started with com.adguard.safari.AdGuard (if there’s any)
• ~/Library/GroupContainers/TC3Q7MAJXF.com.adguard.safari.AdGuard
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.adguard.safari.AdGuard.plist
• Quit all “AdGuard” and “cfprefsd” processes in Activity monitor
• Reinstall AdGuard for Safari

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