How do you block ads in Safari

Nothing to worry about. Ka-Block! is small and it's free. I have never seen any user complaints about its operation.

AD Block is just another in a fair number of available ad blockers. I've tried Ad Block, AdGuard, 1Blocker and some others, I didn't see where the paid or freemium blockers did any better than K-Block!.

Without a doubt, Safari is better than Chrome. But then, anything is better than Chrome.

Chrome is a known, massive resource hog. On top of that, from the moment you turn your Mac on to the time you turn it off, it is constantly sending anonymized data of your computer and web usage to Google's servers. Chrome doesn't even have to be running. The keystone agents,

/Library/LaunchDaemons/google.keystone.agent.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons/google.keystone.xpcservice.plist

do that by launching apps buried within the Chrome app, which load at startup. And then there's this.

We don't allow any software written by Google on our Macs. Not Chrome, Google Earth, or anything else. Google's real business is collecting marketing data. You are their unwilling and unpaid source for it when you use any of their junk. If Safari isn't a browser you care much for, try Firefox. If you have one, you do not need Chrome to access your Google account. You can do that from any browser.

Remove Chrome and its daemons. Never install it again.

Almost sounds like the ads you're not seeing on the page in Chrome are instead being pushed on to a new tab.

Basically, there's no perfect ad blocker. Any is better than none, though. I did try Bear Block once because people were raving about the new great blocker. Yeah, it worked a little too well. It entirely blocked a fourth of the sites I normally go to daily. No page content at all. Dumped the Bear.

Safari doesn't have its own ad blocker. You need to install one.

We use the free K-Block! on all of our Apple devices. It's in the App Store.