safari pop-up blocker

Apple has eliminated the use of extensions with their latest update for Safari to 12.0

Next to this, there is and has never been a pop-up blocker extension.

The pop-up blocker could be activated with a tick box under preferences, security tab, this is no longer available.

Why? I have no clue, the use of Safari becomes more cumbersome as ad-blocking extensions can also no longer be used.

Switching to Opera of Firefox seems to be the alternative.

Thank you for your reply and directions.

I think it is stupid to move the block pop-up window under privacy to websites as I now have to do this for every website.

In my eyes this does not make any sense and I have really no idea why Apple has changes this.

Anyway thanks for your help and I guess the best thing is to move to another browser that still offers this without any hassle.