12 Macworld • April 2020REVIEW
1Blocker was one of the first to enter this market,
producing an app that paired with extensions for
flexible control. 1Blocker 3 is an overhaul of the
macOS app, intended to provide a simpler interface
for users who don’t want to dig into rules and to
meet new extension requirements set by Apple for
the latest release of Safari.
The result is a tool that you can essentially set
and forget. However, in this initial release, you
can’t dig beneath the surface to tweak further,
as was possible in the previous version. The
company promises more fine-grained control in
future updates, including a page-based selector
for marking items to block, such as boxes thatThe standalone 1Blocker app lets you choose
which categories of rules to apply, but is more
limited in choosing among rules in each category