The most advanced ad blocking extension for Safari

Free and open source, highly customizable and lightning fast ad blocking extension.

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AdGuard for Safari

Ad blocking extensions for Safari are having hard time since Apple started to force everyone to use the new SDK. AdGuard extension is supposed to bring back the high quality ad blocking back to Safari.

Unlike other major ad blockers, AdGuard provides some extra features you are used to have with the traditional (now deprecated) extensions:

• Managing protection from Safari
• Choose among popular filter subscription
• Custom filters
• Creating your own filtering rules
• Manual blocking tool
• Whitelisting websites

AdGuard for Safari is based on the Safari native content blocking API, which makes it lightning fast, but somewhat limited in capabilities. For instance, Safari limits the number of rules a content blocker can have.

Better yet, there is a full-fledged AdGuard for Mac

With all above said, there is a solution that is even more effective than AG Safari extension. I mean, of course, AdGuard for Mac. It can:

• filter your traffic in all browsers and apps on your Mac
• have an unlimited number of filter rules
• provide a better filtering quality (due to the lack of browser API restrictions)

You can try it out for free.

How to build AdGuard for Safari

AdGuard for Safari consists of three parts:

• An Electron application.
• Safari Content Blocker extension
• Safari Toolbar icon extension

Prerequisites

• MacOS 10.13 or above
• Xcode 9.4 or above
• Xcode Command Line Tools
• Node.js v8.9.4 or higher
• Yarn

Also, you need to install these packages globally:

• electron-packager
• node-gyp
• electron-osx-sign

npm install -g electron-packager 
npm install -g node-gyp 
npm install -g electron-osx-sign

How to build

To run application in development mode

cd ElectronMainApp

Install local dependencies by runnning:

yarn install

How to debug the app

Debug window

Launch the application via:

yarn start

Open menu View -> Toggle Developer Tools

Debug main process

Launch the application via

yarn inspect

Open URI chrome://inspect in Chromium

Then add a network target localhost:5858 via button "Configure" and select this target below.

Build and run in production mode

Replace the following line in file ./AdGuard/Config.xcconfig

AG_SIGN = <YOUR APPLE DEVELOPER COMMON NAME>

where <YOUR APPLE DEVELOPER COMMON NAME> is your codesign identity

Make sure your system Nodejs version higher v8.9.4.

Steps to check it: if you use nvm run

nvm use system
node -v

otherwise

node -v

Open AdGuard.xcworkspace in Xcode and run building project

How to run tests

cd ElectronMainApp
yarn test

How to update translations

Before updating translations you need to install dependencies.

To do this, you can build project in xCode or run the following commands:

cd ElectronMainApp
yarn install

Create directory private in the root of the project and put file oneskyapp.json in it.

Example of oneskyapp.json

{
    "url": "https://platform.api.onesky.io/1/projects/",
    "projectId": <PROJECT ID>,
    "apiKey": <API KEY>,
    "secretKey": <SECRET KEY>
}

Exporting translations

sh SupportingScripts/localizations/export.sh .

Importing translations

sh SupportingScripts/localizations/import.sh .

Change . to path to your project if you not in the root.

How to release standalone builds

• update version Config.xcconfig and package.json
• select xcode build configuration (Standalone-beta or Standalone)
• build apps
• notarize builds
• publish release on Github
• refresh updates/updates.json and release.json in gh-pages branch

Notarization commands

Notarize request

xcrun altool --notarize-app --primary-bundle-id "com.adguard.safari.AdGuard" --username <ICLOUD_USERNAME> --password "@keychain:altool_access" --asc-provider <TEAM_ID> --file AdGuard\ for\ Safari.app.zip

Get notarization result

xcrun altool --notarization-info <REQUEST_ID -u <ICLOUD_USERNAME> --password "@keychain:altool_access"

Staple

xcrun stapler staple AdGuard\ for\ Safari.app.zip

Common issues

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution/resolving_common_notarization_issues

Use fixed electron-osx-sign

npm install -g electron-userland/electron-osx-sign#timestamp-server