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    What's a good safari ad-blocking plugin?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by cdnalsi, Jan 6, 2008.

  1. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Hey, is there any free ad-blocking plugin that actually works?

    Maybe something like AdBlock Plus for Firefox?

    I've tried SafariPlus and FloppyMoose. Didn't quite work.

    I'm using Safari 3.0.4 on Leopard 10.5.1

    Cheers! :D
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 6, 2008
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  2. mc511

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    I think Safari comes with one. Go to edit and click on block pop up windows. Make sure its checked.
     
    mc511, Jan 6, 2008
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  3. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Yeah, but I'm not talking about pop-up windows, I'm talking about AdSense, animated gifs and flashes on websites... That kind of ads..
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 6, 2008
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  4. mc511

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    ohhh. sorry i dont know any and i hate those ads too. Someone on here would know better than me.
     
    mc511, Jan 6, 2008
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  5. thnksfrthmmrs

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    I don't know if this is what you're talking about but there's a list of them on the Pimp My Safari page.
     
    thnksfrthmmrs, Jan 6, 2008
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  6. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Yeah that's where I got SafariPlus and FloppyMoose. And the rest are shareware.

    I really don't get it, don't people actually read the OP?
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 6, 2008
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  8. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Wow that totally messed up my Safari. After installing it, Safari won't start at all. Just Reopen and Ignore. How do I uninstall it? Because running the installer again, just reinstalls it again :|

    God damn it!
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 7, 2008
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    Safari AdBlock?

    From the link cashmonee posted above:
     
    Xander, Jan 7, 2008
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  10. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Cheers!

    It was conflicting with SafariPlus in the inputmanagers folder, so I just deleted that and now Safari AdBlock works like a charm

    Thanks a bunch! :D
     
    cdnalsi, Jan 7, 2008
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  11. gabroozz

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    does anyone know if there is any good ad blocker for safari on windows vista?? I'm sure there must be but i couldn't find one. need some help on that
     
    gabroozz, Mar 28, 2008
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  12. r0k

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    I never liked Safari on Windows. Firefox with noscript and adblock are a much better option on windows. The adblock extensions for Safari on OS X are largely imitations of adblock for Firefox on Windows/OS X/Linux.

    I just took a look at the safariadblock page over at sourceforge and they confirm they are NOT working on a windows version. Firefox really is your best option for a Windows browser.
     
    r0k, Mar 28, 2008
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  14. r0k

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    Caveman, could you please fix your typo? It's safari not safary.
     
    r0k, Mar 28, 2008
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  15. thnksfrthmmrs

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    You forgot to mention that, that site has nothing for Safari running on Windows. And this is an old thread. :(
     
    thnksfrthmmrs, Mar 28, 2008
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    i dont think www.pimpmysafari.com has anything for safari on windows... i really like the layout of safari.. and i'm using it as my main browser now. If i can't find the ad blocker for that..then not a that big of a deal.. i'll use it anyday over firefox or IE... Thanx for your replies though guys..
    Cheers
     
    gabroozz, Mar 28, 2008
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