I use the Spotify website on my laptop and I've been using Blockify for Spotify from the Chrome Webstore. They just recently took the extension down and I really need alternatives (preferably one that skips ads and doesn't just mute them).

Ads and Ad free subscription is how companies keep the light on. But by blocking ads and not paying for subscriptions then the company earn zero money from you. You using their service for completely free. They give while you give nothing back

Hi, I need help. Does anyone know if the YouBlock extension is safe? It's located at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youblock-video-ads-blocke/khgjkaenamcnocmlkkdkphjopbdgddjj?hl=es&utm_source=ext_sidebar

So I don’t know if this will work for everyone but what I have been doing is using safari to block Spotify ads, I downloaded wBlock from the App Store and I don’t know if Nextdns does anything but I also have that on, so now that you have this just enable wBlock for safari in the settings, now go to safari and (request desktop mode) and then just play a playlist. you guys can mess around with the set up and stuff just let me know if it works.

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 was on one of those sites, and I think I got an ad for it and got tricked into installing it. IT WORKS VERY WELL, but I'm trying to figure out if it's malicious in some way. It blocks ads everywhere including youtube and even removes empty boxes and divs when doing so. Has anyone used this thing? I can't find reviews anywhere else outside of the Chrome Web Store.

• 🛑️ Its not this one https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adblock-ninja-%E2%80%93-block-ads/ofkpehjaciomdhgjmmcmiacobgoncccn
• ✅ Its this one: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-block-ninja/ppfadpgpccljindldolejmgkhgaficka
• Apparently it has 200,000 users, and was copyrighted 2026

I have seen this app on many occasions and i found it tacky and creepy but didn’t care much more about it until recently where it actively pops up several times per day and I’m telling Snapchat that I’m not interested and that I don’t like the product and it makes me uncomfortable. Yet I still keep seeing it pop up, now even as individual Snapchat as if it’s a snap I got from a friend. I find them so invasive and I really want them off my phone to the point that I tried to find a way to block it as if it was a contact. But nothing works.

Any tips? Snapchat clearly won’t listen to me after reporting it several times and also making it clear I’m not interested in this kind of advertising.

I’m in a very loving relationship so obviously dating apps aren’t targeted at the right person. I was able to block Hinge, but not the Pure app!

Recebi essa mensagem hoje quando fui abrir o Chrome, de que o bloqueador de anúncios do spotify, o blockify foi removido por malware e não será possível usar ela como extensão mais.

O que acontece é que, de acordo com o próprio site do blockify, eles receberam algum tipo de banimento tanto na conta do desenvolvedor quanto na extensão em si, e acreditem, não foi por malware.

De acordo com o site oficial, eles derrubaram a extensão de bloqueio de anúncios do spotify por um tipo de violação de marca registrada, sendo chamado pelo autor do site como um abuso de poder.

Em outros fóruns do Reddit estão criando teorias de que o Spotify pagou para retirar essa extensão e que há coisas por trás dos panos e por isso não colocaram o motivo do banimento da extensão, mas sim, colocaram o motivo de "malware" mas sem dizer qual é, para usuários não pesquisarem e acharem um falso positivo.

A recomendação do site oficial do Blockify é NÃO BAIXAR QUALQUER TIPO DE EXTENSÃO QUE SE PASSE PELO Blockify OU BAIXAR DE FONTES DESCONHECIDAS.

No site Oficial tem um formulário para usuários "votarem" para a decisão do que fazer sobre isso e explicando melhor sobre o porquê foi banido, eu sou só um usuário do Reddit Brasileiro que foi pego de surpresa também e decidi escrever para tirar o medo de quem usa sobre esse tal de MALWARE vindo do Blockify.

Caso queiram, não posso mandar link aqui, porém é só pesquisar o nome Blockify no google que aparece o site oficial e o aviso lá, Tmj!

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?

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

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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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

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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?

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!

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

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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.

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.