Rad Shields

Blocks ads, trackers, pop ups and YouTube ads with the same public filter lists as Rad Shields on the TV browser.

Rad Shields keeps the web quiet. It blocks ads, trackers and pop ups, hides the empty boxes ads leave behind, and stops YouTube ads, all inside your browser. It uses the same public filter lists as Rad Shields on the Rad TV browser: EasyList, EasyPrivacy, the uBlock Origin lists and Peter Lowe's list. The lists download once, update by themselves every day, and are turned into Chrome's own fast blocking rules, so pages stay quick. What you get * Ad and tracker blocking on every site, with more than 16,000 rules built from about 96,000 listed hosts. * Pop up protection. New windows and tabs that a page opens behind your back are stopped before they appear, and invisible click catchers that hijack your first click are switched off. * YouTube ad blocking, with ad slots hidden and any ad that still gets through skipped. * Three strengths. Lite is ads only. Balanced is ads and trackers. Strict adds cookie banners, social widgets and annoyances. Every category has its own switch. * A Blocked list for the page you are on, grouped by domain, with a total since you installed. * My blocks. Always block a site, or point at any element on a page and hide it for good on that site. * A switch for the current site. Turn the shield off where a site needs it and back on with one click. * Light and dark looks that follow your system. Private by design Rad Shields collects nothing. There is no account, no analytics and no server of ours. The only network traffic is downloading the public filter lists. Your browsing never leaves your browser. Good to know * The first start takes about half a minute while the lists download and the rules are built. * Some sites break when ads are blocked. Use the site switch in the popup and reload. * YouTube videos can take a few seconds longer to start with the extension on, because the ad data is removed before the player reads it.