Removes YouTube pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll video ads plus on-page ad units.
Users
2
0 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#358K
#272K among extensions
Version
1.0.0
updated 24 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:2 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About AdPrune
AdPrune removes YouTube video ads before the player ever schedules them.
Most blockers wait for an ad break to start, then click skip or seek past it. AdPrune removes the ad metadata from YouTube's player response before the player reads it, so the ad break is never created. There is nothing to skip.
What it does
* Pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll ads** are removed at the source.
* On-page ad units** - promoted shelves, banners, in-feed ad cards - are hidden.
* Anti-adblock dialogs** are dismissed.
* A fallback watchdog** catches anything that slips past the main filter.
* Every feature is a toggle in the popup, and the whole add-on is one switch away
from off.
Privacy
AdPrune collects nothing.
There is no server, no account, no analytics and no telemetry. Your settings and blocked-ad counters are stored in local extension storage and never leave your device. No code is fetched or executed at runtime.
It requests two permissions
- `storage`
- `declarativeNetRequest`
To access to youtube.com, youtube-nocookie.com and googlevideo.com.
Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Source: https://github.com/achintha-ekanayake/AdPrune