Dadblock - AI Scam Guard & Ad Blocker

Your browser's protective dad: AI scam checks, ad and pop-up blocking, and a plain-English report on what each page is up to.

Your browser's protective dad. He's read the terms and conditions so you don't have to. The internet is full of fake prizes, fake "support agents," fake shops and fake DOWNLOAD buttons. Dad has seen them all, and he is not impressed. Dadblock reads the page, blocks the worst of the junk, and tells you in plain English what he found. No account. No sign-up. No lecture. WHY YOU'D WANT DAD AROUND • Scams look real now. Dad reads the words on the page and points at the exact line that worries him: a prize that needs a "shipping fee," a "support agent" who wants the code from your text message, a page asking for your wallet recovery phrase. • Sites do things you can't see. Dad's Report shows which ad and tracking services a page quietly phones, whether it wants your password or card (and where that form really sends it), and whether it asked for notifications, your location, your camera or your clipboard. • Shopping is a gamble. On a shop, Dad checks the boring things scammers skip: who runs it, how to contact it, how returns work, and how you can pay (cards and PayPal protect you; crypto and wire transfers usually don't). One tap shows how old the domain is. • You shouldn't need a security degree. Everything comes in normal words, with what you can actually do about it. WHAT DAD DOES • Scam check (AI): reads the visible text of a page and flags concrete asks like fake prize fees, codes handed to "agents," recovery-phrase requests and bait-and-switch terms. He always shows you the exact quote. • Dad's Report: tap the icon on any page, no scan needed. Outside sites it talks to, password and card boxes, permission requests, pop-ups stopped, shop trust signals. • Pop-up bouncer: stops pop-unders and invisible click-traps, while letting real sign-in and payment windows through. • Ad and tracker blocking: blocks notorious ad networks and trackers with a focused rule list that updates without waiting for an extension update. It's not a 100,000-rule monster. If you adore your big blocker, run both. Dad doesn't get jealous. • Heads-up, not panic: things that are just worth knowing, like free-streaming sites, get a quiet note in the popup. Banners are saved for real alerts. • Two brains: Strict Offline (Chrome's built-in on-device AI, so nothing leaves your device) or Hybrid Cloud (used when your browser can't run on-device AI, or when you choose it). WHAT DAD WON'T DO Dad never says a site is "safe." "No scam wording found" means he spotted no red flags in the text, not a guarantee. "Page not verified" means he couldn't tell, which is never a thumbs-up. AI can be wrong, so Dad shows his evidence and you decide. Dad doesn't record what you type, and there are no accounts. PRIVACY, IN DAD LANGUAGE • Free, no ads, no selling your data. Ever. • Strict Offline: nothing leaves your browser. • Private workspaces (documents, boards, designs) are never scanned. • Hybrid Cloud: only the visible page text and the page URL are sent, after emails, phone numbers, credit cards, SSNs and IP addresses are stripped out on your device. Your IP address becomes a one-way daily hash used only as a rate-limit counter. • The optional "Check domain age" button does something only when you tap it: it asks the public registry when the domain was registered. • Full details: https://dadblock.org/privacy.html Power users can plug in their own Groq key in the settings. Questions or feedback: support@dadblock.org WHAT'S NEW IN 1.1 • NEW: Dad's Report, a plain-English look at what each page is really doing. • NEW: Shop Check and a one-tap domain age lookup. • NEW: "Heads-up" notes (popup only) for sites that are worth knowing about, instead of scary banners. • BETTER: fewer false alarms. Login buttons, one-time codes you asked for, and ordinary buttons no longer raise scam alerts. • BETTER: sign-in and payment windows from trusted providers open properly. Search results pages are no longer scanned. • BETTER: plays nicely with web apps. Online whiteboards, design tools and document editors keep working, and your private documents and boards are never scanned. • BETTER: Dad is more honest. Anything he can't confirm now says "Page not verified" in plain words.