I an having issue's on my iambic I have everything updated and use Malwarebytes for adware and spyware. Every page I go to I get ads does anyone have a good free ad blockers that is safe and free to use and will not mess up with my iMac. I will even give you my EtreCheck report for you all to look over.
I do not want to download a app that will be useless.
This was run last night.
Thank you all for your help.
Frank
Have just tested the site provided Catalina 10.15.7 on Safari 14.0.2 and extension Ads and Stuff Blocker version 4.4.4 Enabled in Safari. The Two Adds in you posting are not there. See below Screen Shot
Have just tested the site provided Catalina 10.15.7 on Safari 14.0.2 and extension Ads and Stuff Blocker version 4.4.4 Enabled in Safari. The Two Adds in you posting are not there. See below Screen Shot
Check the Apple Apps Store and search for Ads and Stuff Ad Blocker. Free and thus far, works very well on Safari on High Sierra, Safari Catalina and Safari Big Sur,
Recommendations? Ad-block Plus is available for Mac in App Store and as an extension for Chrome.
My opinion? 4 out of 5 stars.
With the extensive amount of resources that chrome uses, Ad-block plus further hammers down my poor 8gb of ram. It should meet your day to day needs though. A lot of news sites will detect and tell you to turn it off. Works fine in any other situation.
VPN you can buy online is pointless and a security risk, passing all your data through goodness-knows-who’s servers.
Like said originally
You will be quite safe with Mac's Gatekeeper, the inbuilt antivirus and the inbuilt system integrity protection.
If you suspect malware/adware then Malwarebytes free version can scan for them as required and then uninstalled from the help menu. (I wouldn't install the paid-for version which runs in the background like Avast)
Etrecheck can also be run occasionally to check for junk and performance and to ensure the three built-in Apple protections are turned on.
Both these tools are recommended by the community.
You already have at least one adblocker installed. Clean it or them out first.
You also have Malwarebytes, probably running in the background as well as Catalina’s own antivirus. Using two security apps running at once is not a good idea.
I know you paid for that version of Malwarebytes but the free version would have been better in my opinion and used to scan only if adware is suspected.
Frank ( if I may address you by your name ) If willing, post back to this message with the specific webpage that is causing the unwanted issue ( adverts ). Will check it out on Big Sur via Safari with the Ads and Stuff Blocker extension. Then, will take a Screen Shot and post back as pert of a reply. It will be up to you to compare and see what is the same or different. At least this way we an determine where the issue may be.
Very Best
Pierre
Frank - to be honest this Ad Blocker was used my High Sierra with Safari and was no better than Ads and Stuff Blocker that was suggested previously. In fact the AdBlocker Plus with Microsoft Edge installed on High Sierra and Safari alerted by High Sierra that it contained Malware. Quickly uninstalled both MS Edge and AdBlocker Pus and ran a Malware scanner
Go to Applications folder and open Ads and Stuff Ad Blocker and open it and rad instructions within the App then close it. Has the extension in Safari been Enabled ? Safari >> Preferences >> Extensions. Look for Ads and Stuff Ad Blocker and Enable extension.
2020-12-16 1Blocker (3.12)
2020-12-16 AdBlock Pro (8.1.3)
2020-12-28 Adblock Plus (2.1.7)
and other privacy items
2020-12-28 DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials (1.4.3)
2020-12-29 Ghostery Lite (1.1.0)
And the doubtful
2020-12-31 VPN (3.794)
You are taking intrusion protection to a level above what IMO is really required. Safari will do a lot of tracking protection you may not get with the failing Firefox (your other post)
P. Phillips,
Thanks for the info still getting a lot of ads on any website I go on. I even wet to recovery and reinstalled Catalina to see if it continues and it does. I do not know whats going on.
Thank you
Frank
Peter,
I have Ghostery lite and deleted all those already.It still shows on the report for a month at least. I had a clean report but had to try which one works and none work been using Ghosty lite for a long time before that I was using plain Ghosty and that worked out great I still have that on my Firefox and works great no problems there on Firefox. I do not know why Safari can not be like Firefox that is a better browser than Safari. I only use Safari care all my book marks are there otherwise I would not use Safari.
Thank you as well.
Frank
P. Phillips
This was not here before when I looked maybe because i am still groggy just got up and have covid for 3 weeks with muscle aches and let sen and taste and very weak, Soory for any typo's. It aseems to work now thanks to you. Did i five you solved my issue if not how can i do it again?
Thank you again
Frank
Frank, you have been most gracious to award the help provided with the Maximum awards. The real issue was solved. If only there was a way to solve your COVID-19.
More important that these computer things - is Health
P. Phillips
I do not see solved my issue with green dot for you? I have the app and installed and for some reason it is working now yesterday after down load it did not work even I turned it on in the extension section of system pref. for safari.
Thank you for your concern for my covid illness. I hope no one gets this its awful. Stay safe everyone.
Thank you
Pierre
Thank you for all your help you all have been great to me could not ask for the best community in the world. When I bought my iMac this was aprt of my decision did not want to be like Microsoft wwith all the headaches and really not that great community. This is the best.
Take care all and thank you all again.
Frank
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