This was a very good episode. I loved the atmosphere. The cowboy vibe has been entertaining! Although I sort of felt excluded as a non-native English speaker not understanding the bleeped-out content. 
Extension I use:
Ghostery came up - I think itâs an extension to avoid. Per their Wikipedia page (Ghostery - Wikipedia): Under its former owner Evidon, Ghostery had an opt-in feature called GhostRank. GhostRank took note of ads encountered and blocked, then sent that information back to advertisers who could then use that data to change their ads to avoid further being blocked; although this feature is meant to incentivize advertisers to create less intrusive ads and thus a better web experience, the data can just as easily be used to create more malicious ads that escape detection.[20]
Not everyone sees Evidonâs business model as conflict-free. Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford graduate student and privacy advocate, has said: âEvidon has a financial incentive to encourage the programâs adoption and discourage alternatives like Do Not Track and cookie blocking as well as to maintain positive relationships with intrusive advertising companiesâ.[21]
Since July 2018, with version 8.2, Ghostery shows advertisements of its own to users.[22] Burda claims that the advertisements do not send personal data back to their servers and that they do not create a personal profile.[23]
Iâm loving this episode (only partway through so far). @MacSparky, one comment so far: I donât disagree with you about how good Awesome Screenshot is, but if you just want to capture a full webpage itâs much easier to use Safariâs export command. File > Export as PDF⌠(â§âE). Another advantage of this is it results in a PDF, so easy to select or highlight text.
My contributions:
URL Linker for Safari. Use it to copy web page titles and links in your favorite format, such as Markdown.
Homecoming for Mastodon. Open Mastodon toots in your own home instance.
Surfed is an app for managing and searching your browser historyâbasically combines a history manager and bookmark manager. You can save searches, and more. Iâm waiting for it to support iCloud sync before giving it a try. Itâs an intriguing app.
Is anyone else having trouble with the Safari toolbar icons being reset every once in a while?
Iâd like to throw in my 2 cents for the âmanagingâ of the extension icons in Safari.
I may have missed them mentioning this, but it is possible to use the âcustomize toolbarâ feature in Safari to remove whatever extension icons you donât want in your toolbar. Granted, still not as full-featured and flexible as Chromeâs, but worth mentioning for those extensions that donât need any UI.
I want to throw in that this was my favorite episode in a long time. I also noticed a lot of the discussed apps catapulting to âTop Paidâ in the App Store!
For content blockers, articles like this make me think the Hush model of simply dismissing the pop up is not sufficient.
Extensions like Consent-oMatic that can potentially read passwords make me nervous. Itâs not that I donât trust them⌠alright, that is it. Nothing personal though! Even if itâs open source and probably safe now, whatâs to stop that changing tomorrow?
Is there a good way to actively deny consent without compromising security?
I use:
Regarding ad blockers:
I was a die-hard linux user for years until COVID forced my entire work team to become remote. After logging into a Teams meeting and trying to share my screen and finding it didnât work with linux at the time, I gave up and bought an M1 Air and havenât looked back. I was a fan of Firefox and used an excellent ad blocker (I forget the name) that was free and worked well. I was bummed when it wasnât available for Safari. I tried a bunch of ad blockers that worked with Safari and ALL except Wipr either:
Wipr, with the âWipr Extrasâ extensions enabled, works great! No slowness, no goofy network routing, no intrusive UI, AND it blocks Youtube ads. It just works and works well.
My extensions are fairly utilitarian and not interesting for talk about (ad blockers or stuff to link to other apps mostly).
I think the only extension I run that doesnât fall into that category is Momentum. It gives you a nice home page. Itâs more than that, and I did have a paid account until this year, but I stopped and just use it for the nice photo.
Great show â Iâll add that I could never get the WayBack extension to work for me, but I do like the workflow I put together. I have a group of Keyboard Maestro actions that I bring up with a conflict palette (Hyper + âLâ for Link) that gives me a bunch of actions I can do with the current Safari page. Load the URL in the WayBack Machine, extract an ISBN from Amazon or Bookshop.org link and look it up on BookFinder or WorldCat, load the current Amazon item on CamelCamelCamel. These save me a ton of time, highly recommend making things like this for your common web workflows!
This has been one of the better episodes of late. While I am not a fan of extensions, there is some good information to be gleaned from this episode.
Picked up a couple extensions I hadnât heard about before somehow!? 
A few points missed on ones already mentioned:
Mapper:
A few others I default install:
@MacSparky Since you asked, an alternative to Grammarly is LanguageTool. The core is open source, though they sell a premium hosted version to help fund development. It also gets funding from the EU so lots of development for other languages.
It seems to work as well or better for my style of writing, but your mileage may vary.
+1 for LanguageTool, which I find myself using all the time. Perhaps not as powerful as Grammarly, but great for everyone working with other languages than English.
Wow, this looks really nice. Thanks for sharing. Grammarlyâs $144 yearly subscription is a bit nuts and when it runs out I might check this out.
When I was looking for a Wayback Machine extension, I decided against using the official one. I canât remember why now, I think it might have been because of poor reviews/ratings in the App Store. For several years I have instead been using âWaybackâ which is developed by a third party.
I find it invaluable when Iâm doing research. If I have a reference I always make sure that the original location of the PDF (or webpage) and the page linking to it is saved in the Wayback Machine so that I know it will always be possible to locate the citations I provide. A quick click on Waybackâs icon in the toolbar shows me whether the page is archived and gives options for archiving, viewing the history, newest/oldest snapshot, etc. This is what I get for this page:
If anyone is having issues with the official extension I can recommend Wayback. Itâs been working solidly for years.
One gap in Safari extensions mentioned in this episode was something that allows you to display the CSS blocks on a page, to easily identify issues when developing and maintaining websites. I donât have any experience with this myself, but a search turned up CSS Scan which seems to do what @ismh wants. Itâs somewhat pricey (for casual use), but maybe this is what these sort of tools cost?
Posting in case this is useful to someone who knows more about these things!
I use Super Agent too, for the same purpose as you, and with the same settings: it just automatically answers ânoâ to all cookie requests, of which there are a lot, at least here in the EU. But Iâm also confused, because in the episode, I feel like @MacSparky mentioned a plugin called Super Agent that fills in address details and such on web forms, which I donât think this Super Agent does. Maybe there are two different plugins named Super Agent? Or maybe I misheard? I donât see Super Agent in the show notes for the episode at all.
