Fix a broken site
AdBlo turns filter layers off in halves and reloads the page, so nine possible culprits become four questions instead of nine. Then it offers a one-click remedy. No other blocker does this.
AdBlo blocks ads, trackers, malware hosts and coin miners. When a site misbehaves, it works out which filter did it in about four rounds — instead of leaving you to switch things off one at a time.
No acceptable ads · No telemetry · No account · GPL-3.0 open source
A block count is a statistic. Time is the thing you actually lost. AdBlo shows both — on every page, and for all time.
In a year that's 182 h and $3.6K of your time.
Estimated at 15 seconds per blocked item — load time, distraction and the attention an advert takes — valued at whatever your hour is worth. It is an estimate, not a measurement, and not money that appears in your bank account. Your own rate is yours to set in the extension.
Every blocker blocks. The difference shows up on the day a checkout page won't load and you have to work out why.
AdBlo turns filter layers off in halves and reloads the page, so nine possible culprits become four questions instead of nine. Then it offers a one-click remedy. No other blocker does this.
Five minutes, thirty, an hour, until the tab closes, or until you turn it back on. A countdown tells you exactly when blocking resumes — no more forgetting you disabled it three weeks ago.
The element picker highlights whatever you hover, shows the selector, and lets you widen or narrow the selection with the arrow keys. Works inside iframes.
One switch blocks camera, microphone and location for every site, and stops WebRTC from handing out your local network addresses. Turning it off restores your old settings rather than overwriting them.
Some blockers operate a whitelist that advertisers can pay to join. AdBlo has no such programme and no commercial relationship with any advertiser. Nothing is let through for money.
There is no network code in the extension at all. Your block counts live in your browser and stay there. No account, no sync server, no analytics identifier.
Chrome's Manifest V3 removed the old pop-up blocking option entirely. AdBlo neutralises pop-unders in the page itself, which is the only route left — and one most Manifest V3 blockers simply dropped.
When a streaming platform uses server-side ad insertion, the
advert is spliced into the video stream before it reaches your browser.
It arrives as the same segments, from the same servers, in the same
format as the programme. There is no separate request to block and no ad
element to hide — the ad is the video.
No browser extension solves this. Not AdBlo, not uBlock Origin, not any
product claiming otherwise. We would rather tell you now than have you
find out after installing.
No paid tier. No upsell. No moment six months from now where the good features move behind a subscription.
Yes. Free and open source under GPL-3.0, with no paid tier, account or subscription. Every feature works without signing in to anything.
No. AdBlo runs no acceptable ads programme and has no commercial relationship with any advertiser. Nothing is allowed through in exchange for payment.
No. The extension contains no network code outside the filter list compiler, which runs on the developer's machine at build time. Your statistics are stored locally and never transmitted.
AdBlo removes ad instructions from YouTube's player data before the player reads them, and skips mid-roll breaks that get through. YouTube changes these formats often, so — as with every blocker — this occasionally breaks until it is updated.
The full extension is built on Manifest V2, which Chrome disabled for ordinary users during its phase-out. Its Manifest V3 successor, uBlock Origin Lite, is deliberately more limited. AdBlo was built for Manifest V3 from the first line rather than cut down to fit it.
Filtering runs through Chrome's own native matching engine, so the extension never sees or delays a request. Generic element hiding ships as a plain stylesheet the browser applies with no JavaScript at all.