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dgraham/Ka-Block

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A Safari extension that blocks an artisanal selection of advertising domains.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2015-10-02 · latest 2025-02-28

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  1. I have been using https://github.com/dgraham/Ka-Block for years. It works great. Kind of strange it's never mentioned when ad blockers are discussed.
  2. I use Ka-Block for iOS. It says its for Safari, but it blocks ads in Firefox as well. https://github.com/dgraham/Ka-Block
  3. …have Firefox with uBlock installed, but with that earlier setup I end up still using Safari. [1]: https://github.com/dgraham/Ka-Block [2]: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
  4. …fine. If your primary goal is to protect your privacy, you shouldn't be using Ka-Block. [0]: https://github.com/dgraham/Ka-Block
  5. …https://github.com/saagarjha/OpenAdblock (will work on iPhone 5 and 5C, it claims) https://github.com/dgraham/Ka-Block (for Safari on OS X) https://github.com/jlnr/SansFonts (kills web fonts on iOS)
    comment by lstamour · 2015-10-02 · in Putting Mobile Ad Blockers to the Test