Many ads will still get through, even with Google’s tool turned on-ads that are both annoying and privacy-invading. But note that this tool isn’t so much an ad blocker as an ad limiter. And you can turn Chrome’s ad blocker on or off at any time. If you make a change to the rules.json file and submit a pull request, please also bump the version in the manifest.json file.Did you know Google Chrome has a built-in tool that can limit the number of ads you see while browsing? Like most ad blockers, Chrome’s service improves the user experience by reducing unwanted pop-ups, and stopping the noisy autoplay videos you find on many sites. The extension does 5 attempts per second and gives up after 25 attempts by default (so 5 seconds in total). You can optionally pass in a removalAttempts integer that will increase the number of attempts it makes to remove an element (sometimes the element is in the DOM but the display is hidden for a longer period of time before becoming visible). The elementsToRemove array takes a CSS selector such as. The matches array contains the hostnames and each one is string compared from right to left against the current hostname.

Try to use the parent company as the key name if possible, as the websites tend to all behave the same way.Įach object requires a matches array and an elementsToRemove array. The key of each object is unique and can contain multiple websites. It also removes the hidden overflow on the html and body tags. When a user visits a matching website, the extension watches for the DOM elements to be created and then removes them.

The rules.json file is made up of a list of websites and the known DOM elements that show the ad blocker notice on the page.

Once it is accepted, a new update will be published to the Chrome Web Store.

Submit a pull request from your repo back to the original repository.

Push the changes to your github repository.

Click the 'Load unpacked' button in chrome://extensions and choose the folder.

From the master branch, create and checkout a new feature branch to work upon.

If you are comfortable with Javascript, you can add it to the rules file and create a pull request (see below). If you see an ad blocker notice on a website, feel free to report it in the issues section. Chrome extension to remove the ad blocker notice on popular sites.

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