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Reloading sites without content blockers

Quickly deactivate content blocking on any web page without leaving Safari

Updated over 2 weeks ago

You might already know that a significant part of 1Blocker relies on native Safari tools to deal with intrusive content: How 1Blocker protects you.

Since these tools are tightly integrated into Safari, the browser provides a quick and convenient way to configure them.

  1. There is a button that reloads any page without content blockers right from the browser's address bar. This setting applies only to the current tab, so switching to another tab automatically re-enables content blockers.

  2. You can also make it work permanently on a given site by adding an exception to your Safari settings.

How to quickly see a page without content blockers?

The following steps will only work if you have at least one content blocker installed and enabled on your device.

iOS:

  1. Launch Safari.

  2. Open the website you want to see with no content blockers applied.

  3. Tap the button on the left side of the address bar:

    • - iOS 18 and later.

    • aA - before iOS 18.

  4. Tap "Turn off Content Blockers".

The page will reload with all content blockers disabled.

Safari will re-enable them if you close the tab, open another tab, or tap "Turn on Content Blockers" in the address bar.

macOS:

  1. Open the website you want to see with no content blockers applied.

  2. Tap and hold the refresh button in the address bar.

  3. Press "Reload Without Content Blockers".

The website will reload as a temporarily allowed site.

To enable content blockers again, just close the tab, open a new tab, or press "Reload With Content Blockers" in the address bar.

The behavior of this feature was different before Safari 16.4, where content blocking would apply again the next time the page was reloaded.

How to permanently deactivate content blockers on a site?

iOS:

  1. Launch Safari

  2. Open the website you want to see with no content blockers applied.

  3. Tap the button on the left side of the address bar:

    • - iOS 18 and later.

    • aA - before iOS 18.

  4. At the bottom-right of the menu, tap the [...] button.

  5. Turn off/on the switch "Use Content Blockers".

This will make the website invisible to all content blockers installed on your device.

You can see and edit the list of exceptions in iOS Settings > Apps > Safari > Content Blockers (under "Settings for websites").

macOS:

  1. Open the website you want to see with no content blockers applied.

  2. Right-click on the address bar.

  3. Press "Settings for [site's name]".

  4. Turn off/on the "Enable Content Blockers" checkbox.

This will make the website invisible to all Safari content blockers installed on your device.

You can see and edit the list of allowed sites in Safari > Settings > Websites > Content Blockers.

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