Hassle-Free Web Shield

Blocks ads, trackers and popups, says no to cookie banners, removes floating videos and pop-ups, skips YouTube ads. No remote code.

Blocks ads and trackers at the network layer, and stops the popup tricks that ordinary blockers miss: popunders, tab-unders, clickjack capture layers, and first-click hijacking — where a page turns your click on a link into someone else's tab and cancels the navigation you asked for. When that happens, the click you meant is completed for you. SAYS NO TO COOKIE BANNERS Cookie banners are answered with the site's own "reject" or "necessary only" button and then hidden — never "accept". A banner it does not recognise is hidden without being answered. You can switch to hiding only, or turn it off, for every site or just one. DISTRACTION CONTROL • Newsletter pop-ups that open by themselves — one you open with a click stays • Video players that follow you down the page — one you pressed play on stays • "Got a minute for a quick survey?" invitations • "Allow notifications?" requests fired on your first click anywhere YOUTUBE Video ads are removed before the player sees them. If one plays anyway it is muted, covered and run to its end, and if YouTube refuses to play, the extension steps back for that page rather than leave you without the video. YouTube now holds a video back for roughly the length of its ad break, so a video can take a few seconds to start — but you will not see the ad. IMAGE SWAP (OPTIONAL) Put a picture of a cat, a dog or a landscape where a blocked ad was. The pictures are drawn by the extension itself; nothing is downloaded. WHY IT ASKS FOR ACCESS TO ALL SITES Chrome warns that this extension can "read and change all your data on all websites". Every ad blocker needs that, for the same reason: ads and popups are not confined to a list of known domains, so a blocker that cannot see every page cannot block on every page. That access is used for exactly one thing — filtering the page as it loads. There is no server, no analytics, no telemetry, no account and no identifier. Nothing about you or the sites you visit leaves your browser, including to the developer. NO REMOTE CODE, EVER The filter rules ship inside the extension and are never fetched or updated from a server. That is a deliberate constraint rather than a missing feature: it means the code Google reviewed is the code that runs on your machine, and it cannot be quietly changed afterwards. PER-SITE CONTROL Every capability can be turned on or off for an individual site from the toolbar popup, so one awkward site does not force you to drop protection everywhere. WHAT IT NEVER DOES • No data collection of any kind • Never presses "accept" on a cookie banner • No VPN or proxy: your traffic never passes through anyone's server • No accounts and no sign-in • No "acceptable ads" programme and no paid allowlisting • No affiliate links • No remote code and no remote filter updates Privacy policy: https://gist.github.com/victorsaithura/ba97f961f49fdf5e29c11730e4a6038e