Shieldly Ad Blocker

Free local ad blocking and browser privacy protection with YouTube filtering, anti-tracking and annoyance removal.

Shieldly is a lightweight ad blocker and privacy extension designed to make everyday browsing cleaner, faster, and less distracting. Shieldly helps reduce unwanted advertising, tracking requests, promoted placements, and other intrusive page elements while giving you simple controls for each website. ### Key features **Ad blocking** Helps remove advertising requests and common ad placements across websites. **Tracker protection** Reduces analytics and tracking requests that follow your activity across the web. **YouTube filtering** Helps reduce promoted placements and advertising-related elements while browsing YouTube. **Protection modes** Choose between Compatibility, Balanced, and Strict protection depending on how aggressively you want Shieldly to filter content. **Per-site controls** Temporarily pause protection, allow ads on a specific website, or report websites that do not work correctly. **Simple protection dashboard** See your current protection status, blocked activity, and estimated time saved directly from the extension popup. **Optional distraction controls** Additional tools can help reduce cookie consent overlays, newsletter pop-ups, sticky elements, and notification prompts. ### Privacy-focused by design Shieldly performs its filtering locally in your browser, helping keep protection fast and responsive without unnecessarily sending page content to external services. ### Built for everyday browsing Shieldly is designed to stay out of your way. Turn it on and browse normally, or customize protection whenever a website requires different settings. Whether you want fewer ads, less tracking, a cleaner YouTube experience, or simply a less cluttered web, Shieldly gives you one focused control panel for managing your browsing protection. Install Shieldly and enjoy a cleaner, calmer web.