This app, which was previously only available on iOS devices, has been ported to OS X & now equips your Apple Mac browser with a Website inspector & native Content blocking tech already built into Safari’s underlying foundation, Webkit, which lets it block the same before the browser renders it.
According to its creators, ‘1Blocker for Mac’ allows for an amount of extreme customizability & granular control over what’s being blocked that goes well beyond what’s been available until now. It comes with 28,000 predefined blocking rules & an easy to use user interface (UI) to tweak them or define your own. It also lets you block a number of social widgets, custom Web fonts, adult sites, share buttons, EU cookie law notices, etc. & you can whitelist Websites as well through a Safari extension.
1Blocker’s UI classifies the rules into categories like Widgets, Trackers, Ads… letting you block entire categories, or by drilling down, you can also enable or disable individual rules, & of course, add some new ones. You can even sync rules & preferences to iCloud & sync them across all your other Macs & iPhones/iPads.
The maker of 1Blocker is Russia-based indie iOS & OS X developer Salavat Khanov, who claims that since it scans the Content of all the pages you visit, it doesn’t expose your privacy & what’s more since this app vastly improves efficiency, it also saves battery life on your Mac laptop. Another claim is that this is the only Content blocker with iCloud syncing & that it’s more feature rich than other popular contenders like Adblock Plus, Ghostery, uBlock & Adamant.
You can get 1Blocker at the Mac App Store for US $4.99. The app was released in mid-2015, while version 1.0 of the app was released on Jun 9, 2016.
Click here to download 1Blocker.
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