What are /r/Safari's favorite Products & Services?
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Actually, it's not because of the protocol violations; the gifs/videos are actually in 'webm' format, which Safari (or more properly, QuickTime) doesn't support.

I tried to install Google's webm codecs for QuickTime, but that didn't help. Installing Perian, however, made it work. You can download it here: https://github.com/MaddTheSane/perian/releases (select Perian.prefPane.zip, you might need to right click → Open after downloading to bypass the security warning when trying to install it).

Interestingly, I was under the impression Perian was no longer actively developed, but it looks like it has recent contributions to it, so maybe it is… It makes your site work, anyway; but ideally they should provide other alternate formats to webm since as it is, it would only work for about 50% of the population.

You'll never get enough critical mass to get the team to notice. Even if you convince thousands, Safari is so big on Mobile that it would be within the noise.

There are better ways of being heard. Get people to file bug reports on bugreport.apple.com explaining why you want the policy changed. There is a real person triaging these bugs and if even 10 people report this issue, he will notice.

Next, also go on https://www.apple.com/feedback/ and express your opinion. This is triaged by different people so that give you a second chance of being heard.

If you get 100 people doing both, you will have 10 times the impact of getting thousands to boycott Safari.

Currently using:

Adguard as adblocker
StopTheMadness for general nuisance fixes (such as websites that won't allow text selection or copying)

For the first part you can read https://adguard.com/en/blog/safari-web-extensions-response.html this article about it, for the second part I am not expert on these subjects but basically it's the job of an adblocker reading and altering webpage to block ads, and storing this data to block this ads instantly for next time you visit these pages. Can this lead privacy problems? I think yes, that's why you need to choose well known-trusted extensions.

Check under website preferences whether content blockers are enabled or not.

I am using AdGuard on safari mobile, but for safari desktop I am not using any adblockers at the moment since I find that safari alone is doing a pretty good job. I think none of the adblockers on the Mac app store can block 100% ads, but you could look here and check AdGuard's main program for Mac, which will run externally and not only in safari (It will block publicity even on other browsers)

I don't recall wether it's free or not but It should have a free trial at least.

PS: please don't block ads on YouTube, you will hurt contents creators' revenue.

Hi there,

Everything can be customized to your personal preference on the Turn Off the Lights Options page. And you can change the lamp button action (-> that dims the screen) to Night Mode action (-> which will convert the website to your personal dark mode theme.

See this YouTube video tutorial on how to activate the Nigh Owl profile (that change the lamp action to activate Night Mode only):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpzf7LWegt0
And feedback is always welcome to improve this experience.

Thanks,
Stefan
https://www.turnoffthelights.com

What you're downloading is not actually AdBlock; you've fallen victim to a scam which installed malware on your computer. When Googling something, opt for an actual result, not the advertisements at the top of the page.

Here's how to get rid of the malware.

Here's a link to the real AdBlock.

How to Open Links in Private Browsing Windows in Safari for MacHow to Open Links in Private Browsing Windows in Safari for Mac

Here’s how to open new links directly into private browsing windows on a Mac with Safari:

Open Safari on the Mac if you have not done so already Open any webpage that has links (for example, osxdaily.com) Hold down the OPTION key, and then Right-Click (or Control Click) on a link Choose “Open in New Private Window” to open that link into a new private browsing mode window of Safari

Had the exact same issue, didn't find much on how to fix the problem but I have turned off the "safari suggestion" under "preference" then "search", took away the occasional suggestion you get when you were just halfway typing some well known or frequent visit site but never had the issue of it redirecting to weather.com anymore. Hope it helps.

Wow that’s super helpful.

There are multiple options in Safari that allow you to choose the search engine you wish to use. By default that’s Google. There are A LOT of people especially in r/privacy that prefer not to use Google and many use DuckDuckGo (DDG) which is an option. Brave Search is another really good one that isn’t an option, my question was does anyone know if it ever will be.

https://search.brave.com

You can get the latest unsupported version of RES on the website: https://redditenhancementsuite.com. I use it, but it's becoming more and more noticeable and frustrating that it's no longer supported, especially with the redesign coming.

I recommend uBlock Origin (adblocker) and also PiPifier Button, which allows you to view most videos in picture-in-picture. If you only watch YouTube videos, I'd skip this extension as you can right-click twice on a YouTube video in Safari and you'll get a native PiP option.

I wouldn't use Disconnect and/or Ghostery. I would use ( in fact I am using ) uBlock Origin.

I also use the hosts file to block shit ( like FB and webminers ) system-wide.

But you asked about Safari addons. The problem is there's not much you can add to Safari to make it better. If you want to stick to Safari, just use uBlock Origin, set it up the way it suits you ( learn more here ) and be done with it.

Don't loose too much sleep over this because at the end of the day, to block as much tracking as u can ( there's no 100% solution no matter what computer/device/OS you are using ), the process is much more complex than adding an add-on to your browser.

PS: when I say "don't loose too much sleep over this" I'm talking specifically about Safari/browser.

Later edit: dude... you ask about anti tracking addons, but on your reddit profile u have a photo of yourself, your name, age, where u live, school of thought and believes ( or disbelieves ? :P ) and... im not sure what "Straight Edge" is. Probably the punk subculture? Anyway... what im trying to say ( or repeat ) is " the process is much more complex than adding an add-on to your browser. "

Try this for the first issue. It happened to me but what I did was edit the address, and it’ll change the icon to the correct one.

I changed it to “https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox”.

As for the second on, I just hid it from the new tab. Sucks it couldn’t be better.

Possible in Safari < 12 with the Safari Keyword Search extension. Unfortunately, Safari 12 removes support for this type of extension.

You can use an app such as Lacona (free; this is my preferred solution) or Alfred (requires the non-free Power Pack to get keyword searches).

Lacona comes with lots of search engines built in, though you have to rename the keywords to something shorter.

Yeah, I believe tomorrow at WWDC Apple is doing a special session for developers on the new extensions API, so maybe we will learn more then, but for reference this thread from the uBlock Origin reddit page throws some cold water on the hope that uBlock could be ported over to Safari anytime soon.

AdGuard has also done some deep dives on their bloghighlighting the issues they have faced in the past regarding building content blockers for Safari that you might find interesting.

I just put up with the YouTube ads, but I also don't watch a ton of YouTube so I'm probably not as annoyed by it as others are. I tried AdGuard yesterday as an alternative to Wipr and wasn't impressed with their claims that you can block ads on YouTube using their Safari extension. I ran into issues where the YouTube video wouldn't play unless I refreshed the page, probably due to Google's servers trying to inject an ad and AdGuard blocking it. While it's good that AdGuard was able to technically block the ad, I'm not sure it's all that much better of an experience to have to constantly refresh YouTube so you can get to the video rather than just sitting through a 6 second T-Mobile ad like with Wipr.

While part of their extensions/apps are open-sources, they are a profit company after all – https://adguard.com/en/license.html.

It's completely okay, i just personally prefer:

small devs instead of companies

do not:

think that profiting (as a company) from work of community (ads-blockins lists) is a great idea overall.

Lol just uninstall Firefox.Adguard its a good adblocker and Safari the best browser for macOS. I just use Chrome for Microsoft teams because of Microsoft limitations and the rest on Safari. With Safari you get AppleID sign in, Apple pay and iCloud sync (pretty useful if you own more than one iDevice). If you own an android phone you can use Pocket and sync it. There is no need to have Firefox, unless some aging website only Firefox runs

These are what I use:

1Password - Password manager
Grammarly - Spell and grammar checker
Honey - Automatically finds and fills the coupon codes on shopping sites
Raindrop.io - My fav bookmarks and webpage saver. I have a paid subscription to this service.
StopTheMadness - A swiss army knife with many useful functionalities like being able to copy the URLs by Cmd + C when hovering on links, removing tracking junk from URLs, being able to paste in all input fields, etc.
Vimari - Lets me operate Safari with single key shortcuts. 'c' for close, 'z' to go back, 'x' to go forward, 'a' to switch to previous tab, 's' to next tab etc.
Wipr - Adblocker. In addition to this, also have AdGuard running system-wide.

Safari recently added support for DuckDuckGo, which offers a very nice feature that does what you describe, only that it also requires a "!" before the "r". Also, you can search 100s of other sites using the same technique.

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I’m with Pugged actually. If you look into how Dark Reader was ported to Safari, it’s just the one developer who ported it who seems to be generating all the profits. But there were tons of people who contributed to that project presumably because it was free. If you want to support the project, then donate to the collective: https://opencollective.com/darkreader/donate.

To my knowledge, there are no extensions that are compatible with Safari 13 that perform this function. Safari does generate these on its own: for instance, if you visit IMDB Safari will recognise the search string and allow you to search by prepending 'imdb'. However, you cannot define your own key words this way.

My personal solution has been to use Alfred to replace this function, see: https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/web-search/

I highly recommend Downie. It's a sweet little app that will download any recognizable audio or video from almost every conceivable site you might be looking at with just a click. It's highly customizable. I've been a power user of it for a long time now.

Downie main window

Ah yea anything Google related is going to act funny on other browsers. Firefox is constantly getting messed with, it's funny because depending on the site you can just change the user agent to spoof Chrome (while in Firefox, never tested on Safari) and it will start working fine.

If you use Google apps quite a bit then keeping Chrome around would be a good idea because they are simply going to perform better on that browser.

FYI, one thing that is annoying to me with Safari is how you cannot play any videos over 1080p. There is a free open source program called IINA that includes a Safari extension. Say you are on YouTube or something and want to watch a 4k video, there is an icon in the toolbar you can click to automatically open it in IINA. The extension also adds a button for when you right click on a link to open in IINA so you don't have to load the entire page, it will just send the video straight to the video player.

Hey, I'm the maker!

Many of you have heard that macOS will have some of its own translation features starting with Big Sur. The very first logical question that may pop up in your head is "Why Mate then?"

I'm glad to answer! First of all, Mate serves a slightly different target audience. Mate is different from Apple or Google Translate at its core.

We focused on a small niche of pro users & learners who live languages. Who translate so much that a simple double-click saves them hours every week as opposed to copy-pasting.

To name a few, here are things that Mate nails better:

103 languages instead of 12
One-click translation of sentences and words on pages, not only full page
Translate selected text in any Mac app, not only in Safari
Uninterrupted writing flow – always available in the menu bar
Phrasebook for saving vocabulary that you want to learn.

However, there are things that we proudly share with Apple:

A firm stance on privacy
Seamless full page translations in Safari

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I don't think /u/eraseandinstall read the question; uBlock is an ad-blocker, not something that enables you to view geo-restricted content.

Unfortunately I'm not aware of anything for Safari which will do what you want, and I believe Safari lacks certain APIs available in developer extensions which allow content to be selectively streamed through a proxy.

Your best bet is probably finding something that forwards all YouTube traffic through a non-German proxy at the system level, such as Media Hint—I don't think Media Hint actually applies any rules to YouTube so it might not work for your specific case, but you could always ask them to find out! If they don't, there are probably other similar services available which do proxy YouTube automatically. Unfortunately I doubt any of them are both reliable and free.

I bit the bullet & switched to full Adguard app several months ago which not only works with Safari but can also block ads in Mac apps as well—like Apple Mail. It was easy to transfer my AdBlock/uBlock custom user filters with no problems.

Yeah ... it's a pretty steep entry price (I chose lifetime) but they are offering a 30% discount with the promo: "Safari 13 disabled your ad blocker? Here's a 30% discount for you". Takes a lifetime license price of $49.95 to $34.97. The way I use it & and for what it does it made sense for me to go lifetime.

PS ... buy it from the Adguard website not from the App Store, this way you get more frequent updates.

Hope that helps.

Now I need to find a replacement for Tampermonkey! Grrrrrr. Makes me sorry I updated to Safari 13 before investing further. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I looked into different options when I switched from Chrome and this is the one I liked the most.

It’s open-source and allowed me to set it the same way I had uBlock Origin on Chrome.

I also really like Better for the ease of use, but it’s less customizable.

Mostly, yes. Moreover, having more than one ad blocker will impact the speed of your browser.

I don't know any of the apps in your screenshot specifically. I use 1Blocker, which also exists for Mac. It's a very fast and reputable blocker. Some ad blocks are notorious for either "leaking" paid ads, or collecting and selling data about your browsing habits.

Hi there,

Thank you. The schedule feature is in the Turn Off the Lights browser extension version. See the Night switch, can be visible on your time. Such as 10 pm until 6 am.

The schedule feature is in the Turn Off the Lights browser extension version and macOS 12.
https://www.turnoffthelights.com/browser/safari/ios/

Thanks,
Stefan
https://www.turnoffthelights.com

It looks like a Workona Safari extension is planned: https://workona.com/help/browser-extensions/#safari

From their website:

Workona Safari extension

Status: Planned Note: You can access your workspaces on Safari by logging into your Workona account. However, some features will not be supported.

The following will install a system-wide "blacklist" which will cause the browser to not be able to load ads, malware sites, etc.

Go here.
Find the one you want. I suggest the one named "Unified hosts = (adware + malware)", unless you also want to block other things like gambling.
Right-click on "link" and choose "Download Linked File".
In Finder, hit cmd-shift-G. A little window pops up asking you to enter a folder name. Enter /etc.
Find the file called hosts. Rename it to something like hosts.backup. Finder will ask for a password (overwriting the file requires administrative access) when you do this.
Copy the downloaded hosts file to the same folder. If this seems dangerous, this is completely harmless. But worst case, if you want to go back, you can simply copy hosts.backup over it to restore the old file.
Done. Try loading a site.

Note that this approach doesn't necessarily eliminate all ads. Also, you should repeat the steps every now and then to keep your blacklist up to date.

The above approach will block ads without slowing down the browser at all.

Pretty sure Maxthon does. It's like the most common not-talked-about web browser, but it's pretty good and I sometimes use it myself. Back in like 2015 it was the most HTML5 compliant browser out there.

The extension is the one I copy pasted the information about just below :), it's because of my hyperactivity I just can not control myself when it comes to open webpages.

After a while I can maybe delete Chrome entirely since I will have the habit to use one window at a time.

The Solution: Onetab Chrome Extension

Onetab converts all open tabs into one single page of bookmarks. This can reduce memoryusage from GBs to mere MBs of space, and it allows for easy perusing when you’re ready to scroll through them and tab triage

> HTTPS Everywhere

Where did you get it for Safari? The official site reads it's impossible to make it work in this browser: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/faq#faq-Will-there-be-a-version-of-HTTPS-Everywhere-for-IE,-Safari,-or-some-other-browser?

As for your questions, I cycle through tabs with a single Ctrl-Tab (and the way you describe it sounds really weird to be honest; something has to be wrong with your system), and I can easily drag-and-drop image files to Imgur (but not sure about pasting an image from the clipboard if you mean that).

I'm not sure about Stylish alternatives, but I use the Dark Reader extension(https://darkreader.org) for "dark mode". It can automatically switch on when Dark Mode enabled in Safari, and it can dim websites instead inverting colours. You need to pay for it for Safari, but you might want to try it for free for Chrome to see whether it works for you

I hate it too. Decided to update and immediately regretted as soon as I opened Safari to this abomination. I've since turned off colors in the tab bar and the new tab design. Yuck.

Sometimes this happens when using a VPN whose node has suspicious traffic. When I was using Private Internet Access VPN with some nodes I would reliably be made to fill out captchas on several sites including Google.

Sometimes it also happens a when ad blockers block trackers Google expects to get data from.

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