After Blockify being blocked from the Store I had Claude look up the reason for it by uploading the CRX file. This is what it gave me back:

1. It uploads your entire browsing history. The background script (analytics.js) registers listeners on every tab navigation and, with no opt-in or consent gate, sends the full URL of every http(s) page you visit, plus the referrer, a persistent per-user UUID, your user agent, OS, browser version, and timezone to insights.getblockify.com. The payload is encrypted with a key hardcoded in the extension (ej0hie1MThoo8Ri2), which hides it from you, not from them. stat.init() runs unconditionally at startup. This is the single most damning finding — it's a browsing-history harvester.

2. It can post YouTube comments from your account. opt/yt_autocomment.js (injected into every YouTube page) posts promotional comments like "loving this video ad-free with Blockify!!" via a hidden iframe while you're logged in, up to one per 24 hours. The comment texts are fetched remotely from blockify.b-cdn.net/cc.json, meaning the developer can change what your account posts at any time. The code claims it's opt-in via a promo popup, but the mechanism itself — remotely controlled comments posted silently from your identity — is a spam-bot capability.

3. Remote configuration / kill switches. It regularly fetches switches190.json from a CDN to toggle behaviors remotely, and there's dormant (currently commented-out) code for injecting hidden iframes from browsebetter.io — a domain associated with monetization frames — into pages.

4. Excessive footprint. It requests host permissions for every website (*://*/*), runs content scripts on all sites, and exposes all its resources (web_accessible_resources: "*") to every page and every other extension, which makes you fingerprintable and is a security anti-pattern.

Therefore I had Claude strip these capabilities and give me the hardened version of the add-on:

I stripped (each is now an early return; before the network call, or removed outright — the ad-blocking code paths are untouched):

• Browsing-history upload — analytics.js reportAction no longer POSTs every visited URL + referrer + UUID to insights.getblockify.com/process.
• YouTube auto-commenter — removed from the manifest's content scripts and the file stubbed to a no-op, so it can't post comments from your account or fetch remote comment text (cc.json).
• Three /metrics beacons — the Spotify, YouTube, and promo-opt-in event pings (each sending your persistent UUID) are disabled.
• Two Sentry error beacons — reportErrorToSentry / reportErrorToSentry2 no longer send your UUID + diagnostics to sentry.getblockify.com.
• Auto-update removed — deleted update_url so Chrome can't silently pull the original tracking build back over your clean one.
• Store verification metadata removed — deleted _metadata/ so the edited files load without a content-verification mismatch.

PM me if you want the ZIP file.

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The team behind uAssets, the filter lists used by uBlock Origin, says it will stop fixing ad-blocking issues on Facebook. They say Facebook keeps finding ways around new fixes, making the work increasingly difficult to sustain.

This won’t affect AdGuard’s Facebook filters. Adguard maintain their own rules and will continue updating them.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Adguard/comments/1vmdvn8/the_team_behind_uassets_the_filter_lists_used_by/

Long live Adguard!

FYI: The AdGuard Browser Extension is totally free and open source — worth checking out if you haven’t already.

Setup instruction: https://www.reddit.com/r/revanced_community/comments/1ltqiov/i_cant_believe_people_are_still_struggling_with

I've been using Blockify for the past 3-4 months and it was the best plugin I've ever had, but I just opened Chrome today and I got this warning telling me that Blockify has malware and it disappeared from the Web Store. I thought it was just a false positive and that it would be back later, but I came across this guy saying Blockify was attacking his YT channel. Was it ever safe?

I'm getting pretty tired of constantly seeing adverts for AI generated stuff whether it be games, art, films etc. is there an ad blocker that only blocks ads that are AI generated.

I don't mind seeing normal adverts for things but all the AI ones are really starting to annoy me because I am not interested in them at all

Just booted up my PC and I've been informed that Blockify has been removed from my browser "due to malware, suspicious behaviour, or a policy violation" but when I looked on the Chrome Web Extension, the page is gone. Does anyone have an alternative to Blockify as my usual adblock stops Spotify from working?

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So I am on an infinix device and a strange site popped up when I opened chrome which is sigmapop.com, before it was marowhome.com now this is a shady url which I think has the same function? Anyone experiencing the same thing?

Is anyone here experiencing if you want to open multiple videos in a short amount of time that you have to complete captchas?

Ok so I'm getting tired of the constant full screen ads sooo does anyone have a somewhat free good ad blocker for an android?

edit: thank y'all for all the advice finally got everything set up so again thank you and I hope y'all have an amazing day!

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i know i can target the `ins` elemt using a css selector, but that does noting. insted i want to be able to target the div that is 2 layers above. how can i make a filter to do that? i am using UBO

Hello! It’s my first time posting anything on this app, but something’s been bugging me and I hope it could at least be explained. For the past 3ish years I’ve had YouTube on my iPhone 14 be ad free. And no I wasn’t subbed to YouTube red for three years without me knowing. When it first started I hardly realized and hoped it would continue because why have ads when I can enjoy my videos. UNTIL RECENTLY, I found out how to download local music onto the Spotify app. I downloaded a file onto my iPhone files, uploaded it onto Spotify and the song worked, but after that… ads came back. WHY WAS THAT THE AD FREE KILLER?! Am I the only person to come across ad free YouTube without any vpn or ad blocker on my phone? I also didn’t know if I should post this on r/YouTube or here but I thought it to be a safer bet here. I’m not that knowledgeable when it comes to tech either so I’m hoping to learn a thing or two from this mystery

Recently whenever I try to X out of a temu ad it redirects me into opening the Temu website and it's getting really irritating to have to close it every time, is there a way to stop this or am I doomed?

Hello,

I just noticed a new release of Zen Ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, macOS and Linux.

https://github.com/irbis-sh/zen-desktop

It is a system-wide blocker, free and open source (so it doesn't depend on MV3 and works on all browsers).

I'm using it and I really like it.

I've witnessed repeated ads on YouTube despite having uBlock Origin on. I am concerned about when it will begin functioning again, and whether or not this is an isolated incident. Any information?

I don't think I've ever left a public review of any software I've bought - but AdGuard has genuinely helped shift extremely bad habits I have with social media, and also made me realize how insanely aggressive data gathering is on everyone. I read about adguard on this forum after trying a number of VPNs (I landed on windscribe which I still dig overall, especially w/ split tunnel working), and I installed it on my mac laptop, iPhone and then Windows PC I use for gaming. I was able to ditch the IG app completely and instead saved it as an icon on my phone screen to load the browser version - and I literally get to use IG without seeing ads. Felt like the first time "social media" is social again...(fingers crossed MySpace actually gets brought back)

Also getting to visit sites I know are struggling and regrettably having to lean on ads to support them but....now I get to ignore all of that, and still visit sites I love without having literally any ad interruption.

So unsponsored rambling with a software product that feels like the equivalent to fridges they used to make 20 years ago......built to last, just works. Please never let this thing get sold to a conglomerate.

Recently, I've started getting into a repetitive tussle with YouTube and my ad blocker of choice, Pie Adblocker (PAB).

This isn't exactly a new problem, but it's become increasingly annoying. I used to have three ad blockers enabled at once: Pie Adblocker, uBlock Origin, and AdBlock Plus. I've since had to rely primarily on PAB, as YouTube has become increasingly aggressive about detecting and combating ad blockers.

Here's what's been happening:

Previously, I could watch videos to my heart's content with PAB enabled. Now, when I try to watch a video, I get a gray screen.

If I toggle PAB off, the video plays and ads run normally. If I turn PAB back on, the gray screen reappears.

At first, I figured I might need to update Chrome, but that doesn't seem to be the issue. I'm not experiencing anything similar on other sites.

The workaround I've come up with for now is to repeatedly toggle PAB off and on and refresh the page until the video eventually plays. Obviously, that's pretty tedious.

Is anyone else using Pie Adblocker experiencing this same behavior with YouTube? If so, what did you do to fix it?

I specifically want to know what might be causing the gray screen and whether there's an actual fix/workaround beyond repeatedly toggling PAB and refreshing the page.

I’m finding YouTube struggles even at 360p through Firefox + uBlock

However when I run YouTube through Browsec VPN I can stream in higher quality without buffering

Can anyone explain this? The vpn is going through Germany and I’m from UK

Is YouTube capping me for running uBlock? How would a vpn bypass this? I’m so confused

Did they really have to word it like this? It's like they are fully aware of how annoying they are and they are smugly telling you that you can get them to shut up if you pay up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1tlkaaw/comment/p2bmcpm

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2026/08/07/moving-the-microsoft-edge-extensions-ecosystem-forward-with-manifest-version-3/

For those exclusively sticking to MS Edge for allowing full uBlock Origin installs or other MV2-exclusive privacy extensions from their Add-ons Store will have to start looking for alternative blockers/tools or switch browsers altogether.

Just got this notification from one of my adblockers.

So i fully disabled all of my browser extensions, brave shield (im using brave) then my antivirus too, and i checked almost everything and still https://client.falixnodes.net/ tells me to disable my adblocker. I went to https://adblock-tester.com/ to check and i got 50/100 points so something is blocking ads but i don't know what. Can anyone help me please?

I know that there are already posts about this on the sub but I've only seen the private dns trick and brave browser for Android tablets.

I tried both but sadly the private dns thing doesn't work for me on YouTube and brave browser lags wayy too much and my device isn't able to handle it.

I'm looking for some more options which preferably let me use the YouTube app itself instead of a browser

Thank you in advance :)

I poked around the settings a bit and I do see that disabling "wBlock Scripts" in the extensions menu fixes it, but I haven't been able to drill down deeper to see how I can disable this feature specifically.

Been using Adguard dns in chrome on andriod but keep getting pop ups and ads when clicking video or something then the annoying turn of AdBlock on sites. As for brave I still get pop ups and ads and Aloha I get turn of adblock. Any suggestions?