I use Adguard/wipr to great success. Why's uBlock Origin better? Also, wipr now has filtr, which provides URL filtering at the macOS level, so it's as efficient as it gets.
arijun 43 minutes ago [-]
I think the limitations are similar to the manifest v3 issues that the Chrome version has. Specifically, you (the ad blocker) send the browser a list of sites to block, instead you blocking them yourself. That means it's way harder to do clever things like scriptlet injection to find ads and get around adblock detection.
kstrauser 1 hours ago [-]
Seconded for Wipr. It's my favorite adblocker I've tried yet (although 1Blocker is also really nice). And if the author sells it to some creepy company, the Safari API means that the new owner can't spy on my viewing. I'm not sure how it could be materially improved by using less privacy-respecting APIs.
jjice 1 hours ago [-]
I use AdGuard, Wipr, and uBlock Origin Lite on my iPhone, and uBlock Origin on desktop.
I swear there are little gaps in each that the others get, but they're very minor. When uBlock Origin Lote recently released on iOS (within the last year), I noticed a few more things blocked. I also prefer the custom element removal or uBlock and can reuse my desktop filters.
It's free, so I'd recommend adding it as an addition to the bunch.
JSR_FDED 2 hours ago [-]
1Blocker has been rock solid for me. Got it after reading about it on Daring Fireball and now I can’t use a Mac without it.
lapcat 1 hours ago [-]
This comment seems off-topic. Safari Technology Preview brings new features not yet released in Safari. The non-Preview version of Safari removed support for the safariextz extension format way back in 2019, 7 years ago, so your complaint is very old news and unrelated to version 248 of STP released today in 2026.
Please add way to maximize the window. I rage quit when it goes fullscreen or just tall.
woodson 37 minutes ago [-]
Try option-click on the green icon in the app window. It’s well hidden and unintuitive, but I think it does what you want.
argee 3 hours ago [-]
Does this help stable Safari in any way? I have a WebKit bug I’m tracking that’s fixed in STP but not in stable and it seems like there’s no telling whether it’ll ever land.
lapcat 3 hours ago [-]
It'll land eventually. They always do, though maybe months down the road. But of course Apple won't preannounce its plans, and unfortunately I'm not aware of a way to track WebKit commits in specific Safari releases.
exabrial 1 hours ago [-]
Please, can we put the "Disable Javascript" menu back in the Developer menu
SigmundA 2 hours ago [-]
Wonder if they will ever fix upload progress using XHR, pretty annoying to not be able show accurate progress to the user when using larger chunk sizes:
This update fixed some web inspector bugs that I reported, but I can't use it because Safari Technology Preview inexplicably supports fewer macOS versions than Safari itself, i.e., no longer Sequoia.
kstrauser 1 hours ago [-]
I don't know, given that Safari is bundled with the OS, targeting a newer macOS seems pretty explicable.
lapcat 58 minutes ago [-]
Safari supports 3 major macOS versions. For example, Safari 26 continues to support Sonoma and Sequoia as well as Tahoe: https://support.apple.com/en-us/127685
Safari 27 will support Golden Gate, Tahoe, and Sequoia. However, Safari Technology Preview now supports only Golden Gate and Tahoe, despite the fact that the same WebKit commits will make their way into regular Safari on Sequoia. Thus, it seems that Apple is just shooting itself in the foot by failing to test sufficiently on one supported platform.
nikanj 2 hours ago [-]
It’s impressive that pinch-zooming reddit.com in-out-in-out has reliably crashed ios safari for at least a few years already. One would assume Apple gets telemetry from iphone default browser crashes, and reddit seems important enough to warrant a fix
Not sure how this comment is related to Safari Technology Preview, though, which is Mac-only.
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JSR_FDED 2 hours ago [-]
After being so disappointed by Tahoe and the whole Alan Dye era, it’s great to see Apple getting their mojo back. Golden Gate is shaping up to be a great release.
bearjaws 2 hours ago [-]
I cannot use a browser that is owned by a company who's financial model is dependent upon browsers being nerfed.
Apple and Google have far too many incentives to wall garden browsers, Apple due to the app store, Google due to advertising.
Independent browsers are the only safe path forward.
gausswho 1 hours ago [-]
You're correct. Which makes it all the more inscrutable that the Firefox team doesn't embrace PWA's as a differentiator.
dbbk 2 hours ago [-]
What did they nerf
bearjaws 1 hours ago [-]
Apple: adblocking, PWA being put in a odd spot, surely to be followed by a post "nobody was using it" before being removed, if they mention it at all.
Google: ad blocking
dbbk 31 minutes ago [-]
Ad blocking isn't nerfed
arijun 6 minutes ago [-]
It is when compared to Firefox. Safari and now Google claim that it's for security, as the newer interfaces expose way less attack surface for malicious add-ons. I think that it's true that it does improve security, although I'm not sure that I believe Google when they say they're not doing it to stop people from blocking their main revenue source.
unsungNovelty 2 hours ago [-]
PWA for starters?
They are not interested in Indie devs anyways. Might as well let us use PWA no?
dbbk 31 minutes ago [-]
How
2 hours ago [-]
Rendered at 00:54:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-ser...
Looks like the Safari MCP is also now available in the most recent Golden Gate beta part of system Safari:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-developer-t...
Like last months announcement of over 500 fixes.
https://webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-saf...
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...
I swear there are little gaps in each that the others get, but they're very minor. When uBlock Origin Lote recently released on iOS (within the last year), I noticed a few more things blocked. I also prefer the custom element removal or uBlock and can reuse my desktop filters.
It's free, so I'd recommend adding it as an addition to the bunch.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277286
Safari 27 will support Golden Gate, Tahoe, and Sequoia. However, Safari Technology Preview now supports only Golden Gate and Tahoe, despite the fact that the same WebKit commits will make their way into regular Safari on Sequoia. Thus, it seems that Apple is just shooting itself in the foot by failing to test sufficiently on one supported platform.
Not sure how this comment is related to Safari Technology Preview, though, which is Mac-only.
Apple and Google have far too many incentives to wall garden browsers, Apple due to the app store, Google due to advertising.
Independent browsers are the only safe path forward.
Google: ad blocking