Thank you Peter … this explains something to me. I have used DuckDuckGo in place of Google for the last few months. Decided to banish myself from Google’s trackers.
I noticed a couple of weeks ago that when DDG opens it pops up first time user windows again. If I click on one of those I am told that the extension no longer operates and is being revised. So for the time being I am simply closing that window each time DDG opens. > On 1 Oct 2018, at 9:02 am, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Safari 12 has had some significant changes to the way extensions are written > and used by the program, to extent that the old Safari Extensions Webpage has > been replaced by a specific location within the Mac App Store. The old web > page still exists for the benefit of users of older versions of Safari. One > consequence of this is that many of the older extensions are either deleted > or at least compromised when you launch Safari 12. > > One of these is Ad-Blocker , which while still operative, comes with a > warning that it will significantly affect the speed of loading of some > websites. See the writing on the wall, I bagan to cast around for a suitable > replacement on the App Store and chose a freebie one called “Magic Lasso”. It > is extremely effective, to the point that it works entirely too well, and > blocks access to perfectly legitimate sites, especially if you’re trying to > come in from a link in an email, for example. The big problem here is that it > provides no way to whitelist such sites. On these occasions I’ve had to go > back and re-activate Ad-Blocker. But I want to move on. Ad-Block say they are > coming up with a working solution, but it’s not quite here yet. > > Many of the others do support whitelisting, but the prices are from anywhere > between free and about $15, and I’m not really prepared to go through them > one by one. There no try-before-you-buy on the App Store. Has anyone else on > the list had experienced the same problems, or come up with a solution > they’re happy with? > > Kind regards, > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape
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