Fast forward to Safari 17 which got profile support, and now I almost exclusively use Safari. I haven't found any fault with its content blocking system wrt blocking ads, even if it's more limited than what FF and Chrome extensions can do.
Well, lo and behold, today for the first time I am getting first party inline ads from Google in the search result for [grafana aws]. They aren't set off the way the normal ads were/are. They just have a Sponsored tag in bold.
There are 3 ads that take up all the vertical space "above the fold" and then some. At least with bing the ads were compact vertically. Bye Google.
Has this been going on for awhile and it's only now I've hit a search term that triggered it, or is this a new thing, maybe coinciding with their push for FLoC?
Is there a blocking solution for Safari?
could be new, or an experiment.
on one device, i get the ads. on another, i do not. i'm using AdGuard extension. I have it set to the default update interval 48h. I'm not an expert at how the ad blocking works but in the inspector on the browser where it's blocked, I do see the div (id=tvcap) but with empty content. I don't know how to tell if it was delivered to me that way or if it got blocked.
I guess I'll wait 48h for the AdGuard to update and see if the ad persists or not.
You just need Firefox and the extensions that mean ads are never seen.
That said, take a look at https://nextdns.io