#Ublock origin safari how to

I used to manually update it all the time when some stuff wouldn't work and even had to learn how to write custom rules. I just don't want to play a cat & mouse game with Adguard anymore.

#Ublock origin safari full

It was an extra step (copy pasting URLs out of Safari) but it was worth it because Safari couldn't play them at full resolution. Then, I started using IINA and mpv video players to watch some of the YT videos. Thanks! It does seem to work now but for years and years, it didn't. There are couple of sites I encountered that don't work on Safari, so I keep Chrome around, but I only fire it up once a month or so. No YouTube ads and 4k video when available. No YT 4k+ in Safari? Yeah, that is also not a thing, see screenshot:.I'm not a daily YouTube watcher, but I do watch my fair share of LTT, MKBHD, Dave2D, my mechanics, ElectroBOOM, etc., most of that in Safari and I have not seen a single YT ad in at least a year.But that's Safari's fault for not allowing browser extensions to intercept the browser there. Where it does struggle is dynamically loaded crap like ad injection via JS. While it is nowhere near as powerful/capable as uBlock Origin, the (also free) Adguard for Safari does a perfectly admirable job at blocking most ads.I like uBlock (Origin) as much as the next guy, use it on FF all the time, and do miss it dearly in Safari 14, but the above is definitely not entirely correct. But until they face the realities of modern Internet, I'll stick what actually works. I'd love to be able to come back home to Safari. I hope the shrinking market share wakes up someone at Apple and they quit handicapping their own software and take a cue from Microsoft (how crazy is that MS is now more responsive to needs of their users than Apple?!). For a while, uBlock worked perfectly with Safari and after the change to 'content blockers', it's been a downhill ride. There's so many of them.Īnyway, Apple has severely mismanaged Safari over the years and they've crippled the desktop version just so they can 'unify' it with the mobile one. I can't even watch a Youtube video anymore without being inundated by multiple ads.

Safari is an amazing and a super-fast web browser but it's crippled by a lack of proper adblocker. But until they face the realities of modern Internet, I'll stick with what actually works.Īfter close to a decade of using Safari exclusively, I've switched over to Chromium.

#Ublock origin safari install

As an added benefit of using a Chromium-based browser, you can install SponsorBlock and get rid of another type of ads. To view 4K/5K videos, you have to use another browser.Īnyway, Apple has severely mismanaged Safari over the years and they've crippled the desktop version just so they can 'unify' it with the mobile one.

#Ublock origin safari 1080p

According to their support ticket that I've filed, there's nothing they can do after I've tried all the suggestions.Īnother thing I've noticed is that Youtube is not providing video resolutions higher than 1080p to Safari. And I've tried every adblock list in Adguard.

After close to a decade of using Safari exclusively, I've switched over to Chromium.