When I updated to Safari 13 I lost my extension called Bit-defender Traffic light. Is there anyone out there that knows of a safe and free one to use. I liked seeing green check marks when I did search in safari. I have attached what I am looking to have again.
Thank you all for your help.
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
Hmm. I'm a bit confused. I have Safari 13 installed and the Extensions tab is still in its preferences. Along them my active extensions for 1Password and Ka-Block!.
Though I think you may be referring to a change that was already partially active, and is now full on. It had something to do with older plug-ins/extensions. The makers of AdGuard mentioned it a while back. Extensions written using an older method were being phased out because possible bugs made it too easy to bypass OS security. Sounds like they're completely disallowed now.
However, you can still get ad blockers by just going to the menu bar (with Safari 13 in the foreground) and choosing Safari > Safari Extensions. Plenty to pick from.
I'm running Safari 13.0.1 (14608.2.11.1.1) and use Ghostery as my adblocker:
It seems to work well for me. If you go to the App Store and do a search for adblock you'll get a number of potential candidates. You'll also get a number of anti virus apps which should be avoid at all costs.
Also what I found which is much better and takes up little memory its Ghosery lite in Apple store. Much better.
FWIW, I use Wipr for Safari.
Safari 13 should be more effective in blocking ads, do you find that? Here' an article that explains it - somewhat:
"Both Chrome and Safari will use a new extensions backend. They will limit how extensions intercept and block web requests by preventing the extension from interacting with the web request directly. Instead, the extension will deploy a set of "content blocking rules" and the browser will do the blocking without the extension seeing any user data."
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Hi Frank, Safari 13 has removed Safari Extensions. I can't suggest any alternatives since I've never used anything like that. FWIW I don't think it's necessary.
But still the best one of them all, and free to boot, uBlock Origin, is missing.
Thanks Kurt, then I was confused too. I thought that all extensions had been phased out. I see now with Safari 13 that I certainly do still have Extensions in Preferences and 1Password is active. Also many extensions are listed in the AppStore. I wish Apple would stop fooling us that way! 😎
There it is! Thank for finding that, BDAqua. Following the sub link on that page brings you to the bit more detailed explanation of why older Extensions were given the boot.
Safari>Preferences>Websites>Content Blockers ?
frank_the_snake_master_01 wrote:
Which do you think is better then?
Thank you for your help.
I don't use either so I can't say. As I posted previously I use Wipr.
Yes, much better browser than Safari.
No that checkmark is likely only found in Bitdefender, but you might suffice with this...
macjack,
Thanks I did the update to Safari 13.0 then noticed that they were gone. I get a lot of ads on any website I go and hate them. So there is no way to block all these ads? Warm here in the east coast 77 degrees.
macjack,
If its on the back end it also affects some website that I want to enter codes for Coke Rewards and Kellogg Rewards and then it tell me to take of the blocker to login. How do I turn it off to get into those account. I miss ad blockers cause I am getting so many as well.
read that article but is there a way turn turn of the backend when I login to Coke Rewards and Kellogg Rewards how can I tun off the backend for these websites? Also what do you think of these browsers Brave browser and Opera I cannot find those old comments on these. When they did a update to this board I let the person in charge know that some of my history is gone.
Thank you buddy.
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