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eppur_se_muova

(42,140 posts) Sat Apr 18, 2026, 08:14 PM Saturday

Where can I find older/legacy versions of UBlock Origin for OSX/Safari ? I am limping along on Catalina (10.15.7) and ..

Apple Store does not keep legacy versions. UBlock Origin Lite is available for OSX 14 (!) and later.

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Where can I find older/legacy versions of UBlock Origin for OSX/Safari ? I am limping along on Catalina (10.15.7) and .. (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Saturday OP

Uptodown mahatmakanejeeves Saturday #1

Thanks. I've visited uptodown before but something about that site made me uneasy ... eppur_se_muova Sunday #7

Another vote canetoad Saturday #2

UBO stopped working on safari some time back usonian Sunday #3

U Block origin still works on Firefox. Sector 001 Sunday #4

Actually, I'm running it now. But Catalina only supports a LTS version of Firefox, not the latest version(s). eppur_se_muova Sunday #5

Have you tried Brave? Sector 001 Sunday #6

Another option Tasmanian Devil 19 hrs ago #8

mahatmakanejeeves

(70,259 posts)

1. Uptodown

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2026, 08:22 PM

Saturday

https://en.uptodown.com/mac

I get old Android apps here to run on a 5th generation Kindle Fire.

The was also a site called OldVersion or something like that, but I'm not sure it's still around. This isn't the one I recall:

https://www.oldversion.com/

You call 10.14 old?

eppur_se_muova

(42,140 posts)

7. Thanks. I've visited uptodown before but something about that site made me uneasy ...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 02:00 PM

Sunday

Tried it again, found the ads for stuff I don't want right in the middle of the d/l process so that it's easy to d/l the wrong thing. Also sends me to Apple Store for the mac version of UBO.

Oldversion is a better site in a lot of ways, but it seems I'm looking for something that doesn't exist. UBO dropped Safari a long time ago but is apparently available for iOS, which does me no good. I can' find an alternative ad/content blocker for this version of Safari -- not enough info on compatible versions.

canetoad

(20,833 posts)

2. Another vote

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2026, 09:22 PM

Saturday

For oldversion.com. Excellent site.

usonian

(25,910 posts)

3. UBO stopped working on safari some time back

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:47 AM

Sunday

All releases should be at github. Good luck finding it.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

Sector 001

(335 posts)

4. U Block origin still works on Firefox.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 06:48 AM

Sunday

Install the Firefox browser and the U Block Origin plugin and you should be good to go.

eppur_se_muova

(42,140 posts)

5. Actually, I'm running it now. But Catalina only supports a LTS version of Firefox, not the latest version(s).

Reply to Sector 001 (Reply #4)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:51 PM

Sunday

Firefox is painfully slow on this machine -- so slow that I prefer to launch Safari just for speed, but Safari has other misfeatures I can barely tolerate.

I think I'm about to retire this iMac and install Open Core on an i3 iMac to patch-install a later version of OSX. This one (Core2 Duo) will be diverted to background jobs all day.

What I really need to do is get my Linux boxes up and running again (long story). I've largely abandoned Apple for many purposes in favor of LInux, but I still like to do my email, Web browsing, and most file handling in OSX. Programming and math/science got to Linux.

Thanks for suggestions though.

Sector 001

(335 posts)

6. Have you tried Brave?

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #5)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 01:59 PM

Sunday

It has its own built in ad blocker that works great.
https://brave.com/download/

Tasmanian Devil

(185 posts)

8. Another option

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Mon Apr 20, 2026, 04:36 PM

19 hrs ago

Given you're ok with linux, I'd suggest running PiHole someplace. It's designed to run well on a Raspberry Pi, but can run on a normal linux machine as well. Much easier than doing per-machine ad blocking.

https://pi-hole.net
https://www.howtogeek.com/the-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-running-a-pi-hole/

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