Adguard For Mac

Designed specially for macOS, Adguard is a straightforward and very efficient application that aims to improve your overall web browsing experience by blocking unwanted and annoying ads.

Not only this, but Adguard keeps a close eye on your browsing security and also on your privacy protection, fact that is backed up by its powerful Spyware filter that blocks tracking instruments, dangerous requests and other malicious content that could eventually compromise your privacy or harm your Mac.

Another worth mentioning feature is the fact that Adguard comes as a standalone application on your Mac, thus, you can use multiple browsers without having to install ad blockers that come as extension for each and one of them.

Once installed on your Mac, Adguard will seamlessly integrate itself in OS X’s menu bar and will silently work in the background without disturbing you. Simplicity is the word that best describes this lightweight and efficient ad blocker, a fact that’s easily observable once you click its status bar item.

Within its drop-down menu, you can quickly enable or disable the ad blocker, the privacy protection, and the browsing security features with just a few clicks on their switches. In the bottom part of its status bar menu, you will a set of statistic portraying the number of blocked ads, trackers and dangerous requests.

Despite the fact that Adguard for the OS X is more focused on ease of access when compared with its Windows counterpart, within the Preferences menu you can still fiddle a bit with the app’s settings in order to make it suit your needs.

You can turn on filters that unblock ads which may be useful to you, activate language-specific filters automatically, launch the app when your Mac starts, add your own blocking filters, enable the app’s browser assistant, activate an extension that blocks unwanted pop-ups, and a few other, just as useful, options.

Adguard will automatically block ads in all apps running on your Mac, thus improving your web browsing experience without taking a toll on your Mac’s system resources. As a final note, Adguard is exactly what an OS X application should be: simple to use, efficient, and unobtrusive.