Adblockers, Purifiers and Extensions to Have NO-Script Enabled
You have probably been hit with different popup overlays on websites asking you to register, take a survey, sign up for a newsletter, buy something or complete a similar action before seeing the content.
Matt Elliot on CNet.com says: “While most overlays have the close button in the upper-right corner, some diabolical webmasters have become masterful at disguising the X button that lets you close a popup overlay and enter the website.”
By installing the Overlay Blocker extension, you get a convenient tool to remove popup overlays on any website not looking for the X button.
This extension does not overload Chrome browser or put an icon in the extension bar, just right click the mouse and choose “Block Overlay” in the service popup window, and that's all! Have a better time surfing the web!
No coin is a tiny browser extension aiming to block coin miners such as Coinhive.
The extension is simply blocking a list of blacklisted domains in blacklist.txt. Clicking on the icon will display you a button to pause/unpause No Coin. If you are aware of any scripts or services that provide coin mining the browser, you can submit a PR to the developer.
This add-on automatically removes all garbage like "utm_source=*" from URLs. These fields are provided for the Google Analytics and they are not a necessity.
Example of URL with garbage fields:
Pure URL:
http://bigpicture.ru/?p=431513
By default, Pure URL removes these garbage fields: — utm_source, utm_medium, utm_term, utm_content, utm_campaign (spyware fields for the analytics.google.com) — yclid (spyware fields for the metrika.yandex.ru) — feature (a garbage field on the youtube.com) — fb_action_ids, fb_action_types, fb_ref, fb_source, action_object_map, action_type_map, action_ref_map (spyware fields from the facebook.com) — ref, fref, hc_location (garbage fields on the facebook.com) — ref_ (garbage field on the imdb.com)
Styles and skins for all popular sites in the web
FreeStyler is a browser add-on that has everything you might need to style up websites you visit according to your taste. It provides a great number of ready-to-use styles with convenient system of managing them.
User style is a skin for a website, aimed to give it an absolutely new look by applying new font's color and theme, different background or elements layout. Thus you put the irrelevant content out of your view, change color schemes, or completely restructure the entire site.
All the styles FreeStyler operates are hosted on companion site FreeStyler.WS. It is a huge database of free-to-use themes, created and shared by users all over the Internet.
With FreeStyler you can:
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Apply styles to sites - you can change appearance of any site you want. Try one of thousands of ready-to-use styles created by other users or make you own and share it with FreeStyler.WS community.
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Get style suggestions for currently viewed site - FreeStyler will recommend you styles that suit sites you visit best. Just open the FreeStyler menu in the bottom right corner of the page and choose the one you like. You will be able to preview and install styles in just one click.
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Search and install styles from FreeStyler.WS - you can install any style you like right from FreeStyler.WS. Just click the "Install Style" button on the styles page.
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Manage styles - you can manage all installed styles on a Managing page. It allows to enable, disable, edit, update or remove styles at any moment. Also you can manage styles, applied for currently viewed page with the FreeStyler menu.
For advanced users FreeStyler provides style editing capabilities with one click preview, syntax highlighting and CSS-validation.
Now authors can upload new or edited styles on the FreeStyler.WS site directly from the extension via "Save and upload” button in the extension's editor.
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Popup Blocker (strict) is a lightweight extension to prevent websites from opening popups. The extension pauses all sort of window opening requests for user attention. You can either accept or deny a request. Multiple unique requests are shown in an array. If a websites requests a single URL more than once, a badge number will be shown indicating the total number of requests to this particular URL.
Please note that the extension is recently renamed from "Popup Blocker (ultimate)" to "Popup Blocker (strict)"
Options:
- Deny popup request
- Allow popup request
- Open popup request in a background tab
- Redirect current page to popup URL source
Supported blocking methods:
- window.open
- a->target=_blank
Google and Yandex search pages have the annoying habit of changing the result link when you click it. So if you right-click the link in order to copy it you get some gibberish instead of what you wanted. This extension disables that behavior – on any Google or Yandex domain, without having to configure anything. Simply install and enjoy! As an added bonus, the search engine can no longer track your clicks.
Video AdBlock for Chrome blocks all the video ads on your favorite video services – YouTube and others – shown before the video. As well it's also blocking all those popup ads which driving you nuts during view.
The extension works seamlessly during all time you browse videos and doesn't require any tuning. As well it's lifetime free and Adware free. We are not injecting any third-party ads! Enjoy videos, forget about ads!
Restyle the web with Stylish, a user styles manager. Stylish lets you easily install themes and skins for websites and even customize Firefox and other programs themselves.
JS Blocker is a Safari extension that puts you in control of which scripts—and more—are allowed on any given website—similar to NoScript for Firefox. Frames, objects, videos, and JavaScript annoyances can also be blocked; an image hider prevents webpages from displaying images, too. It protects your privacy, keeps you safe, and speeds up your web browsing.
AdGuard is the best way to get rid of intrusive ads and online tracking, and to protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing faster, safer and more comfortable with AdGuard!
Why choose AdGuard?
There are many addons for AdGuard written in JavaScript. Enjoy that!
Pop-ups, video adverts, banners and such — they will all go away. Due to unnoticeable background filtering and cosmetic processing, all you will see are clean pages with the content you came for.
AdGuard fights against all trackers and analytical systems that spy on you thanks to the special Spyware filter designed by the AdGuard team. It accumulates rules against all known online analytics that try to steal your private data.
There are plenty of otherwise great apps that just can't resist showing ads to you. AdGuard lets you have the best of both worlds by giving an option to filter traffic of any app installed on your computer.
Enjoy a faster, cleaner web.
uBlock enhances your browsing experience, efficiently blocking any clutter and overhead disturbing your experience.
Built for performance, uBlock is also potent and effective — from built-in ad-blocking and privacy-protection filter lists and the ability to add your own to advanced Dynamic Filtering.
We built AdBlock to provide a worry-free and distraction-free Internet experience for everyone. It is used by tens of millions of users worldwide on all major browsers in more than 30 languages. Created by Michael Gundlach in 2009, AdBlock is now one of the most popular browser tools in existence.
The open-source software we create is designed to give users control over what they see in their web browser. It also gives users the ability to have control over their privacy by blocking many of the tools that advertisers and technology companies use to track people when they are online.
We believe that publishers should be able to monetize their content via advertising. Some of our favorite content is made possible with ads, and many of our users actively allow ads from creators they like using features available in AdBlock. Our focus is blocking annoying and intrusive ads. Since 2015, we have participated in the Acceptable Ads program, where publishers agree to ensure their ads meet certain criteria. Ads that are deemed non-intrusive are shown by default to AdBlock users. If you'd like to learn more about how Acceptable Ads works, where the money from this program goes, and more, please visit our Acceptable Ads FAQ.
We are a diverse, fully remote team with employees spread across North America and the globe. Our designers, developers, writers, managers, and more are obsessed with making the Internet a better place. We believe that everyone has a right to surf the web without being bombarded with pop-ups or video ads or being tracked by advertisers everywhere they go.
NoAds is an adblocking extension for the Opera web browser.
Features: -- Blocking scripts from other domains that are 99% of cases are advertising. -- Blocking of page elements, including text ads. -- Import subscriptions AdBlock Plus EHH. -- Helper mode for Opera's "Content blocker". Easy blocking iframes and scripts. -- Enable/disable blocking with the "quick button" in the right bottom corner of a page.
F.B. (Fluff Busting) Purity is a Facebook customizing browser extension. It alters your view of Facebook to show only relevant information to you. It lets you remove the annoying and irrelevant stories from your newsfeed such as game and application spam, ads and sponsored stories. It can also hide the boxes you don't want to see on each side of the newsfeed.
An efficient blocker add-on for various browsers. Fast, potent, and lean.
uBlock Origin is NOT an "ad blocker": it is a wide-spectrum blocker -- which happens to be able to function as a mere "ad blocker". The default behavior of uBlock Origin when newly installed is to block ads, trackers and malware sites -- through EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe’s ad/tracking/malware servers, Online Malicious URL Blocklist, and uBlock Origin's own filter lists.
The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank).
NoScript also provides the most powerful anti-XSS and anti-Clickjacking protection ever available in a browser.
NoScript's unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality...
You can enable JavaScript, Java and plugin execution for sites you trust with a simple left-click on the NoScript status bar icon (look at the picture), or using the contextual menu, for easier operation in popup statusbar-less windows. Watch the "Block scripts in Firefox" video by cnet.
For Android: NoScript Anywhere (NSA) is the nickname for the next major iteration of the NoScript security add-on (NoScript 3.x), whose guts have been turned upside down in order to match Mozilla's Electrolysis multiprocessing architecture and implement a porting for Firefox Mobile, available on Android smartphones and tablets.
This open source (GPL) effort has started in the very beginning of 2011, and has been partially funded by the NLnet Foundation.
NoScript 3 alpha, available on Firefox 4 Mobile for the Android and Maemo operating systems, offers all the the major security features of "classic" NoScript:
- Easy per-site active content permissions management.
- The first and most powerful anti-XSS (cross-site scripting) filter available in a web browser.
- ClearClick, the one and only effective client-side protection against Clickjackings available on the client side.*
- ABE (App Boundaries Enforcer), a true webapp firewall inside your mobile browser to protect your router and web applications against CSRF and DNS rebinding attacks.**
Ghostery sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. After showing you who's tracking you, Ghostery also gives you a chance to learn more about each company it identifies. How they describe themselves, a link to their privacy policies, and a sampling of pages where we've found them are just a click away. Ghostery allows you to block scripts from companies that you don't trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and iframes. Ghostery puts your web privacy back in your hands. Ghostery has different builds for the different browsers.
Fight the text ads! Element Hiding Helper is a companion extension for Adblock Plus meant to make creating element hiding rules easier.
Adblock Plus is a free extension that allows you to - among other things - block annoying ads, disable tracking and block domains known to spread malware.
Available for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Maxthon, Opera, Safari and Yandex, Adblock Plus uses filters that you choose to block all unwanted elements.
Adblock Browser , a mobile web browser with Adblock Plus built-in, is also available for Android and iOS.
Adblock Plus itself does not block ads by default. However it does unblock 3rd party ads who pay to be included on our whitelist via EyeO, our parent company.
Adblock Plus requires the user to "tell" it what to block by adding external filter lists. Filter lists are essentially an extensive set of rules that tell Adblock Plus which elements of a website to block. Our default whitelist is enabled by default overriding all blocklists by default.
You can add any filter list you want. For example, block tracking or malware. You can also create your own filter lists. Almost all filters are open source, therefore many filter lists have been created by Internet users.
You can "opt" out of our unblocking whitelist by disabling it manually.
Filter lists enabled by default include:
An ad-blocking list selected based on your language (EasyList) The Acceptable Ads list
These are enabled to get you started. You can remove them or add others - it's up to you.
EasyList corresponds to your browser language and is aimed at disabling ads that are considered to be intrusive by our community of users. Eyeo GmbH did not draft EasyList and therefore has no right to, or control over, its content other than our default global whitelist. Visit the EasyList Community for more information.
The Acceptable Ads whitelist displays ads that comply with the acceptable ads criteria. The list is maintained by Eyeo GmbH.
