{"id":65110,"date":"2026-08-25T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=65110"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:41:28","slug":"pacific-block-extension-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/pacific-block-extension-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Block, an image and video blocker for Safari, now supports Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pacific-block-econe.png\" alt width=\"192\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-65107\">I&#8217;ve mentioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pod98.com\/pacific-block\/\">Pacific&nbsp;Block<\/a> extension for Safari in passing a few times before. It&#8217;s a content blocker, but instead of ads and trackers, it blocks images, audio, and video. It&#8217;s great for saving data on a limited mobile plan (like a pay-as-you-go carrier plan) and for speeding up web browsing on unstable connections.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November 2025, I suggested a feature to Jeremy, the developer of Pacific Block: integration with the Shortcuts app, to enable automations. It shipped in version 1.8, released on the 15<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>It works! Well, it actually started working four days later, once a fix for automation uses landed in version 1.9.<\/p>\n<p>I built an automation in Shortcuts exactly the way I&#8217;d pictured it a year earlier: whenever I disconnect from any Wi-Fi network, turn on both blocks (images and audio\/video) in Pacific Block. Connect to a Wi-Fi network and both turn off again.<\/p>\n<p>I still need to tweak it a bit. I was on a flaky wireless network the other day and noticed the automations kept firing constantly, every time iOS dropped the connection and immediately picked it back up. I think adding a couple of minutes of delay between state changes, and\/or some conditionals (if\u2026 then) should fix that.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Block is a universal purchase for USD&nbsp;2.99 <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/pacific-block\/id1618355496\">on the App&nbsp;Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2025, I suggested a feature to Jeremy, the developer of Pacific Block: integration with the Shortcuts app, to enable automations. It shipped in version 1.8. The extension is used to block images, audio, and video from loading in Safari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=65106"},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1542,1387,48,1404,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65111,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65110\/revisions\/65111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}