Ads Jacker

★ WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.1 • Trusted-sites list added — Ads Jacker now automatically stays out of the way on Google, YouTube, Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, major social media, streaming services, and other popular sites, so it never interferes with them. • Smarter, safer detection — it now recognizes real menus, dialogs, and pop-out windows (like the Google account menu) and leaves them alone, fixing rare cases where legitimate site UI could be affected. • Better protection for video players and normal page controls. • Accuracy and stability improvements. ----- Tired of clicking anywhere on a page only to have a sketchy ad explode open in a new tab? Ads Jacker is a lightweight, privacy-first browser extension built to kill one of the most aggressive and infuriating advertising tricks on the modern web: the click-hijack. It stops the invisible overlays, popunders, and popup traps that streaming sites, download portals, link shorteners, and "free" content pages use to force ads onto you — without slowing your browser down or harvesting a single byte of your data. If you have ever tried to press "Play" on a video and instead landed on a fake prize page, a shady casino, a browser-warning scam, or an app-store redirect, you have been clickjacked. Ads Jacker is the shield that puts a stop to it. ★ THE PROBLEM: WHY A NORMAL AD BLOCKER ISN'T ENOUGH Traditional ad blockers are great at hiding banner ads using big filter lists. But clickjacking and popunder ads don't work like banners. Instead of showing you an ad, these scripts hijack your clicks: • An invisible, full-screen layer is placed on top of the real page. You can't see it, but it sits between you and everything you want to click. • The moment you click ANYWHERE — the play button, a menu, a link, even empty space — that hidden layer intercepts the click and fires off an ad in a new tab or window. • Many of these scripts use sneaky tricks specifically designed to slip past ordinary blockers, like borrowing a fresh "window.open" from a hidden iframe so the popup can't be stopped the usual way. • Often the trap removes itself after the first click, so your SECOND click finally works — which is exactly why it feels like "the site opens an ad once, then behaves." Filter-list blockers frequently miss these because the ad isn't a fixed URL or a known element — it's a behavior. Ads Jacker targets the behavior itself. ★ WHAT ADS JACKER DOES Ads Jacker watches for the tell-tale signature of a click-hijack and neutralizes it in real time, so your clicks reach the page you're actually looking at — not an ad network. Specifically, it: ✓ Removes invisible full-screen "click-trap" overlays before they can steal a click. ✓ Blocks popunder and popup ads, including the evasive hidden-iframe technique that defeats most simple popup blockers. ✓ Stops scripted new-tab opens (programmatic links and forms set to open in a new window) that fire without your intent. ✓ Lets the clicks you actually make pass straight through to the real content. ✓ Keeps working as pages re-inject their traps — these sites often re-add the overlay every few seconds, and Ads Jacker keeps clearing it for the whole life of the tab. The result: you click "Play" and the video plays. You click a link and the link opens. You click a menu and the menu opens. No surprise tabs, no popunders lurking behind your window, no scam redirects. ★ HOW IT WORKS — THREE LAYERS OF PROTECTION Ads Jacker defends on three independent layers, so if one technique is used against you, another catches it: 1) OVERLAY NEUTRALISER It detects the defining shape of a clickjacker — an invisible element that spans the entire viewport, sits on top of everything, and holds no real content — and makes it harmless so your clicks land on the page beneath. Crucially, it tells the difference between a malicious trap and a legitimate full-screen layer (like the dismiss layer behind an open dropdown menu) by looking at WHEN the layer appeared: a real menu shows up right after you click to open it, while a clickjacker appears on its own at page load or on a timer. 2) POPUP / POPUNDER GUARD It intercepts the ways ad scripts open new tabs and windows. Pop-ups you intentionally trigger with a click — signing in with a popup, opening a "Share" window, a donation window — are allowed through, because they happen during a genuine user gesture. Pop-unders and auto-opening ads that fire on their own are blocked. It also closes the advanced "borrowed iframe" loophole that lets ads grab an unguarded window.open from a throwaway frame. 3) CLICK GUARD A final backstop that catches any click landing on a detected trap, so even a freshly injected overlay can't get a free shot. Because these layers focus on behavior rather than a list of known ad URLs, Ads Jacker keeps working even as sites change their tactics — and it needs no constant filter-list updates. ★ SMART, NOT BLUNT — IT WON'T BREAK THE SITES YOU USE A blocker that's too aggressive is just as annoying as the ads. Ads Jacker is engineered to leave real websites alone: • It never hides video players or embedded media. A player wrapper can look like a full-screen layer, so Ads Jacker specifically protects anything containing a video, iframe, or canvas — your stream keeps playing and showing. • It respects real menus, modals, dialogs, and pop-out windows. Dropdown menus, cookie banners, sign-in popups, share sheets, and app dialogs (the kind used across Google Docs, design tools, dashboards, and countless web apps) keep working, because Ads Jacker recognizes that legitimate UI appears in response to your actions. • It allows the popups YOU ask for. Click a button that's meant to open a new window and it opens. This balance — block the traps, keep the web usable — is the whole point. ★ HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS (AND ISN'T) Ads Jacker is a specialist, not a one-size-fits-all blocker. It focuses on clickjacking overlays, popunders, and popup/new-tab ad traps — the "click …