[Curiosity]

Is there anything for Safari like the Blocksite extension for Firefox? I want something that can block Safari from contact with websites the I do not trust.

[Mac User #001]

It would take longer initially, but you can put Parental Controls on Safari, and you would have to enter in your Username and Password for every site you want to go to when you first go there, but in the end you'd have sites blocked. There would still be the occasionally questioning. Really, you better hope there is a site blocker, because its not a good solution.

[Curiosity]

Thanks, but that was not the point. I mean those sites that try to track you all over the place, like Doubleclick, or try to hijack the home page and search engines, like coolwebsearch. I want to make sure that the browser cannot contact them even if there is an ad banner on the page which would normally cause the browser to access the website to pick up the ad.

[FireWire]

Just so you know, most tracking sites like DoubleClick provide an option to opt-out so they replace your unique cookie with a non-trackable one. For DoubleClick, the page is here.

Otherwise, I guess you could do it manually by editing the firewall rules somehow to deny access to specified domains?

[Curiosity]

Doubleclick also spreads ad banners and web bugs around, and tries to track with referers of browsers sent to pick those up. I block third-party cookies, as well as all cookies that I do not absolutely need, so I do not worry about their cookies.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Curiosity 

Is there anything for Safari like the Blocksite extension for Firefox? I want something that can block Safari from contact with websites the I do not trust.

SafariBlock. It blocks banners as well as web pages. And it's free. And it works with version 3.0

I've been using it for about as long as I have Safari. It even lets you block FRAMES..

[Curiosity]

Thanks, I'll try SafariBlock.

[Kevin]

You are welcome.