Magic Lasso Adblock blocks web ads in Safari, (mostly) for free
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This combination app and Safari extension speeds up web page loads and saves bandwidth with `it just works` ease — but if you want its best feature, you`ll have to pay up. Much to advertisers` and websites` dismay, ad-blocking extensions have proliferated almost as fast as web ads themselves. Unless they charge subscriptions or have other means of financial support, most sites need ad money to operate — and some turn to ever more aggressive and intrusive ads to keep the lights on. But those ads often plague readers by dragging down page load times, hogging bandwidth and CPU power, and making the sites themselves difficult to read. Magic Lasso AdBlock (free to use; pro version costs $29.99 a year) awaits ad-exasperated readers with open arms. Adblock`s free version seamlessly shuns web ads and trackers in Safari across Macs, iPads, and iPhones, with minimal annoyances of its own. Fork over roughly $30 a year for its Pro version, and you`ll get the Holy Grail of online adblocking...