Adblock Solution for Safari 4 (Windows and Mac)
February 25, 2009 : Permalink :

Update: Works in Safari 5 as well.
While there isn’t a native Ad Blocker in Safari 4, I was able to clean up most websites by using Fanboy’s Element Hider stylesheet1 to collapse the advertisement elements.
Here are the steps to setting up the Advertisement Hider in Safari 4:
Step 1: Download Fanboy’s Element Hider CSS file and save it to the Safari profile (or any folder of your choosing).
Step 2: Launch Safari4, go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Style Sheet -> Other… and select the fanboy-adblocklist-elements.css file you just saved.
Note: I am aware of 3rd party tools like Proximity to block ads but I prefer using a browser-specific solution. If you have a better way of handling ads in Safari, please share your ideas in the comments.
- The Element Hider is part of an excellent, lightweight Adblock List maintained by Fanboy and available for Opera (my primary browser). It is made up of two parts: (1) a urlfilter.ini replacement file that catches the ads before they are loaded and (2) an element hider .css file that colapses the ad space so that the webpage looks cleaner. [↩]
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