Sebastian Grans
The curious chemist & computer scientist.
Wikiwand on Safari
If you use AdGuard for Safari as your ad blocker, add the filter to the “User filter” to redirect any Wikipedia article to Wikiwand.
TL;DR If you use AdGuard for Safari as your ad blocker, add the filter to the “User filter” to redirect any Wikipedia article to Wikiwand.
Update: For some reason, it has stopped working on my MacBook that runs Catalina. It still runs on another MacBook running Mojave. I’ll look into it some day.
Update 2: I have now updated the rule so that it works again! There’s a bug in the AdGuard Base filter. Link to issue
As of Safari 13, only extensions from the App Store can be used. This killed a lot of extensions, including Wikiwand. However, we can get the main functionality back using another approach.
In order for me to stay sane on the web today, I need to have an ad blocker (I hope for your sanity that you use one too). Since Safari 13 was launched, AdGuard for Safari was the only ad blocker I found that worked well (e.g. it blocked YouTube ads). AdGuard allows you to add user defined filters, and the syntax is explained here .
(Please note that AdGuard for Safari ≠ AdGuard for Mac. The latter blocks Ads for any application on your compouter. However, it also costs money. This “tutorial” uses the former and I have no idea if the same would work for the latter.)
With the filter syntax documentation, and some very basic JavaScript we can create this filter:
Add this, as a single line, to your user filters in AdGuard and any time you visit a Wikipedia article, you will be redirected to Wikiwand.
I hope this helps someone :)
P.s. if the URL has any kind of query string (e.g. ?query=test ), you will not be redirected. This is so that you can still read on the original Wikipedia when you press the “Read on Wikipedia”-button in Wikiwand. Because that appends ?oldformat=true .
P.s.s. Expand the spoiler to see a explanation of the code.
Explanation of the code
Let’s assume we visit “ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikiwand ”
The first part of the line, wikipedia.org , tells AdGuard to trigger the filter. #%# tells AdGuard that it should perform a JavaScript injection. Anything after that should be JavaScript code.
Here is the code in a more readable form:
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nikolamilekic commented May 7, 2020
Hi, does this still work for you? I can only get it to work with the AdGuard Base filter disabled. Do you know of a way to keep the filter enabled and have the redirect work? Thanks!
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SebastianGrans commented May 8, 2020
Yes and no. It works flawlessly on the Mac I'm currently using, but on my work laptop, it suddenly stopped working some time ago. I tried debugging it, but I can't seem to figure out what's wrong.
SebastianGrans commented Aug 18, 2020
After disabling and enabling all the AdGuard filters it seems to be working again.
nikolamilekic commented Aug 31, 2020 via email
Sebastiangrans commented aug 31, 2020.
Hm... Strange.
What you can try to do is to add the following user rule:
This should run on ALL websites and print "Hello world" in the javascript console.
You can access the javascript console through the Safari menu: Develop → Show JavaScript Console or by pressing ⌥-⌘-c (option-command-c). (You might have to enable web inspector for this to work, see instructions here .)
I noticed that this rule ran on every website, except for Wikipedia. So I simply tried enabling/disabling extensions and the various rules in AdGuard. All of a sudden it just started to work.
Note: After changing the user rules, you need to open a new window for the rule to be active.
nikolamilekic commented Aug 31, 2020
No luck. ☹️ ️ With the 'hello world' trick I see the same results as you – that rule runs on every website except for Wikipedia. The only way I can get it to run on Wikipedia is if I disable (and keep disabled) the AdGuard Base filter, but I want to keep that enabled for the sake of my sanity. I guess it's an AdGuard bug... Nevertheless, thanks for your help!
SebastianGrans commented Sep 1, 2020
Somehow the AdGuard Base filter was disabled for me as well... I'll try to file an issue with AdGuard and see how to resolve this.
SebastianGrans commented Oct 1, 2020
I am now using AdGuard for Safari version 1.8.2 with the base filter activated and it seems to be working! fingers crossed
nikolamilekic commented Oct 1, 2020 via email
adamJLev commented Nov 16, 2020
Thanks for the tip, this is great 👍 I also had some issues enabling it, but after enabling/disabling the adguard base list it seems to now work
SebastianGrans commented Apr 8, 2021 • edited
I just discovered that they have a specific repo for their lists, so I added an issue there: AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters#79855
EDIT: Well that was fast. Someone replied immediately and solved it!
The first line removes the basefilter from Wikipedia and allows the second rule to run. And hence, redirect any wikipedia article to wikiwand.
nikolamilekic commented Apr 9, 2021
It works, it works! Thanks a bunch!
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