Adblocker Google Chrome !!HOT!!
Bree Halliburton
Did the recent update on chrome render the adblock from adblocking from most website now ? If so does paying for the upgrade version of the adblock even work cause it's starting to get annoying that if I mis-click on the page once on the outer part of the page, it will just link me to a whole new page where I have re-scroll again and again...
Usage of adblocker on youtube is not allowed as adblockers prevent vital revenue getting to google, which is a security risk and violates the EULA, you risk your google account being suspended if you use adblockers, this is why adblockers are not allowed on the chrome web store.
you can unzip anychrome extension file (.crx) with 7Zip then if you go in chrome you can type chrome:extensions and check the developer mode then you can install the extension manually
I rarely feel compelled to use an adblocker. This is partly because most pages I view have few, if any, ads, but the main reason is I'm wary of 3rd party browser extensions. Adblock Plus can "Read and change all data on the website you visit." This makes sense, because the extension is removing elements from the webpages you visit. Unfortunately these permissions allow for plenty of mischief [1]. Even if you trust the extension's authors today, the headline "Firms buy popular Chrome extensions to inject malware, ads" should give you pause [2]. Luckily it does not take much work to write a blocker yourself.
Our extension will run in the background and automatically intercept and filter requests. To set this up we give a list of scripts to load and run in the background. The order of scrips is important so make sure to list a script after its dependencies. We will fill in the scripts later, but for now just create a blank file for each and add the line console.log("My chrome extension works!!!"); to background.js.
The plan for the blocker is to intercept requests and block ones to domains hosting ads. Perusing the chrome docs reveals the chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest event. The onBefore request "Fires when a request is about to occur. This event is sent before any TCP connection is made and can be used to cancel or redirect requests. "[3] All we have to do is copy and past the example to get version one of our blocker.
Most adblockers remove elements that look like ads. To detect an adblocker, a site will set a "honeypot" element that looks like or is an ad and checks to see if the element is removed. Because our blocker blocks requests rather than removing page elements, current blocker blockers do not detect it (go to forbes.com which has ads galore if you want to see this for yourself).
We can access the background page from the UI window using the chrome.extensions.getBackgroundPage method. This method gives access to the background script's window object which exposes all global variables.
So there you have it, a short simple adblocker. The only major problem is keeping the blacklist up to date, but scripts could make that easy. For more examples of chrome extensions see chrome's developer docs. Happy coding!
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Thanks for all the help. It has been an interesting discussion. In the meantime I did find this solution, -ads-chrome-ios/ (using a VPN), that could be workable. Have you had any experience with this concept. Seems like it might impact performance a bit.
Hi @happylemon - I ran into this problem myself! The Instrumentation Explorer chrome extension icon was greyed out and not working until I logged my first event in my .html file. Does it work/turn blue once you do that?
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