Whitelisting is a feature, not a failure. Some shops and publishers break when ads are removed, and a good extension lets you switch it off for a single site in two taps. Use the exceptions for the sites you actually want to support. It is the moment ad blocker stops being optional.
Read the permissions before you approve them. A Safari extension should ask to read page content — that is its job — but it should not need your contacts, your location, or broad background access. Minimal permission requests are a healthy sign. With ad blocker, the same principles apply on every site.
Test with a heavy page, not your homepage. Load a large news site or a forum with many third-party widgets and count how long it takes before and after. That is where a content blocker earns its place, not on a clean personal blog.
Statistics are your feedback loop. A transparent panel that shows how many requests were blocked tells you whether the blocker is doing anything at all. If the number stays at zero on a busy news site, something is misconfigured. None of this is complicated, which is the point of ad blocker.
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