Manifest V3 · Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera

The ad blocker that fixes the sites it breaks.

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

What blocking is actually worth

You didn't block 4,600 ads.
You got 19 hours of your life back - that's $380 worth of your time.

A block count is a statistic. Time is the thing you actually lost. AdBlo shows both — on every page, and for all time.

On this page 12 blocked
3 min saved · $1 of your time back
All time 4.6K blocked · 2.8 MB not downloaded
19 h 13 m saved · $384 earned back
Your number

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.

What it does

Blocking is the easy part. Living with it isn't.

Every blocker blocks. The difference shows up on the day a checkout page won't load and you have to work out why.

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.

Pause with a timer

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.

Point and remove

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.

Stealth mode

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.

No acceptable ads

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.

Nothing phones home

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.

Pop-unders too

They keep coming back. AdBlo doesn't get tired.

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.

The bit other sites leave out

What AdBlo cannot do

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.

Free, open source, and it stays that way.

No paid tier. No upsell. No moment six months from now where the good features move behind a subscription.

FAQ

Straight answers

Is AdBlo really free?

Yes. Free and open source under GPL-3.0, with no paid tier, account or subscription. Every feature works without signing in to anything.

Do you take money from advertisers?

No. AdBlo runs no acceptable ads programme and has no commercial relationship with any advertiser. Nothing is allowed through in exchange for payment.

Does AdBlo collect my browsing data?

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.

Can AdBlo block YouTube ads?

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.

What happened to uBlock Origin on Chrome?

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.

Will AdBlo slow down my browsing?

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.