Safari Adblock Extension

Extension: Adblock for Safari

Website: http://safariadblock.com/

Requires: Safari 5.0+ with Extensions enabled

Description: The developer of Adblock has ported the insanely popular Chrome version of Adblock over to a Safari Extension.

(If you're technically inclined, this extension also includes a port library that will attempt to make any Chrome extension work as an Adblock extension.)

If you're not using Safari 5 (released June 2010), then you'll need to go old school with some Adblocking plugins. But you really should just upgrade to Safari 5, in my opinion.

Here's Forbes.com's ad-ridden page...

And the same page with Safari Adblock, all cleaned up...

Of course you can now get a similar effect with the new "Reader" button.

The Reader button comes with the added bonus of not having to click the "next page" button as it presents the entire story in the one scrollable window.

The downside is that ads do get loaded in the first place prior to your clicking the "Reader" button. So you do get tracked, which is an important detail to those of us who wear tin foil hats.