Safari AdBlock 0.2.1

Publisher's description of Safari AdBlock

Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari. It is free of charge and under the GPL license. Safari AdBlock is meant to be extremely simple to use: there is nothing to configure, no filter list to manage, no regular expression, it just works out of the box!

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Editor's review of Safari AdBlock

Built on GPL, the open source and free Safari AdBlock was written with help from the folks who created AdBlock Plus, the popular Firefox plug-in. This iteration for Safari is simple and needs no configuration, although there are a few options for users if they want them. Users can choose from blocking ads in a multitude of languages including English, German, French, Ukranian, Russian, Korean, Chinese, and more. That's about it for customization.

In our extremely scientific testing, whereby scientific we mean utterly and shamelessly empirical, we checked out a few Web sites with big ads including CNN.com, NYTimes.com, and TheOnion.com, and AdBlock successfully killed ads on all three of those sites. Up until now, the best way to block ads in Safari have been pay-for-play options. But for free and open-source goodness, Safari AdBlock is the way to go. Hopefully future versions will have more features, and a few ads did get through in our testing, but by and large this is a very effective ad-blocker.

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  this is easy to download, easy to use and works great even on banner ads

  by: sheba22 on 08-May-2008 10:25:07 AM

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  simple to use; works with safari 3

  by: summertop on 10-Apr-2008 04:59:02 PM

  Cons: not as good as PithHelmet; but Pithelment does not work with latest safari 3 version. Doubtful Pithhelmet will update for some time??????

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  You need to be running 10.5 to use this

  by: leblue12 on 25-Mar-2008 11:14:13 AM

  Cons: I think they should make it usable for 10.4 also

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