Content Blocking by CSS in Safari

ahknight writes "There's a nice summary of how to get various kinds of content, in this case ads, blocked from being displayed via a custom stylesheet you add to your browser. This is mainly for Gecko-based browsers and rather old news, but the good news is that it also appears to work in the ... umm ... latest version of Safari."

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Solves half the problem

[crow]

This solves half the problem. The other half is that the ads are still loaded, just not displayed. I'm using a variant of the style sheet hack, along with Proxy Auto Config to redirect requests to ad sites to a server that returns transparent gifs for every request. It works much like JunkBuster, only it's integrated with the browser, so you don't have the side effects of using a proxy for every request (e.g., it's not any slower).

Now I hardly ever see ads, and the ads I don't see never get loaded in the first place, saving my bandwidth. Of course, that means that the web sites I visit never record a hits on their ad servers from me, whereas using the style sheet alone is completely transparent to the server.

Oh, and both the Proxy Auto Config and the Style Sheet hacks should work just fine with most web browsers, not just Mozilla and Safari.

Junkbuster?

[bedouin]

I've been using Junkbuster to block ads for the past two years, but it's becoming pretty much ineffective since the blocklist is never updated.

Anyone know of a source for fresh blocklists, or a program that's updated more regularly? I'd prefer to keep it Junkbuster if possible.