AdsClickShield

AdsClickShield - Keep your clicks yours. Stop scripted popups, pop-unders, and unwanted external link clicks from interrupting your browsing. AdsClickShield gives you a focused guard against common click-hijacking techniques, with simple controls for choosing which websites receive protection. Protection is enabled by default on supported HTTP and HTTPS websites. Open the toolbar popup to check the current site's status, see observed blocking activity, pause protection, or set a domain rule. Use the settings page when you want to manage your lists or protect only selected websites. No account is required. Settings stay in your browser, and page activity stays in memory. There is no analytics service, remote reporting service, or saved browsing-history log in the extension. WHAT ADSCLICKSHIELD DOES AdsClickShield focuses on three related behaviors: scripts opening browser windows, scripts clicking external web links, and known click traps on YTS. It also suppresses the supported YTS ad-library setup calls before they can create their popup and click-trap handlers. SCRIPTED POPUPS AND POP-UNDERS On protected pages, AdsClickShield blocks scripted window.open calls. This includes calls with blank destinations, calls to external sites, and calls that would open another copy of the current site. Blocking same-site scripted windows also helps interrupt the opening step used in certain tab-swap advertising techniques. The extension does not try to decide whether each scripted popup is an advertisement. It applies the same rule to all such calls on a protected page. This makes the behavior predictable, but it also means a legitimate sign-in, payment, sharing, or preview window may be stopped if the website opens it through that mechanism. When a trusted website needs scripted windows, choose Allowlist for that domain in the toolbar popup. You can also use selected-domain mode so the guard runs only on websites you specifically choose. These controls let you decide where the stronger popup rule is appropriate. SCRIPTED EXTERNAL LINK CLICKS AdsClickShield blocks supported artificial clicks on external HTTP and HTTPS links. It covers direct scripted anchor clicks, including detached anchors, as well as synthetic link-click events that reach the page's click listener. Your own genuine clicks are handled separately and remain available. On ordinary protected websites, an external destination means a different origin. An origin includes the protocol, hostname, and port, so a destination can be considered external even when it looks related to the current website. On YTS, the additional site-specific rule treats yts.gg and its subdomains as the same website family. EARLY PROTECTION AND PAGE FRAMES The protection scripts are registered to run at document start on matching pages. This allows the guard to be installed early in the page lifecycle rather than waiting for the whole page to finish loading. Chrome loads the registered scripts directly, without the extension needing to insert an inline script element into the page. Frame behavior follows the hostname rules that apply to each frame. A page can contain frames from different domains, so an exception for the main website does not automatically give every embedded domain the same exception. The toolbar aggregates observed activity from the current document and frames it can inspect. CHOOSE WHERE PROTECTION RUNS You can use AdsClickShield broadly or narrowly. The settings page offers two default behaviors, and both work with the domain lists while the global switch is enabled. Protect all sites except allowed domains: This is the default mode. Supported websites receive protection unless an allowlist rule exempts them. Use it when you want broad coverage with exceptions for trusted sites that need scripted popups or external link clicks. Protect only disallowed domains: In this mode, protection runs on the domains you place in the disallowlist. Other websites use the unprotected default. Use it when only a few sites cause interruptions or when you prefer to choose each protected domain yourself. The word disallowlist refers to applying AdsClickShield's protection. It does not mean the website is blocked from opening, and it does not prevent you from visiting that domain. You can continue browsing the site while the extension blocks its supported scripted popup and external-link behavior. The global switch overrides both modes and both lists. If you disable protection, adding a domain to the disallowlist does not turn the guard back on. Enable protection again when you want the saved mode and site rules to take effect. ALLOWLIST AND DISALLOWLIST The allowlist is for websites that should bypass the guard. The disallowlist is for websites that should receive it while protection is enabled. Each list supports up to 100 domain entries, and you can add or remove entries from Manage lists. Enter a domain such as example.com, or paste an HTTP or HTTPS website URL. AdsClickShield stores the normalized hostname in lowercase. URL paths and ports are not stored as separate rules, so a rule applies to the hostname rather than only to a particular article, download page, or URL path. Each DNS domain entry includes its subdomains. Adding example.com covers example.com, www.example.com, and other subdomains under that name. You do not need to enter a wildcard. Matching respects domain boundaries, so the example.com rule does not also match an unrelated hostname such as notexample.com. More specific domain rules take precedence over parent-domain rules. For example, you can allowlist example.com while disallowlisting ads.example.com. The parent website remains exempt, while the more specific subdomain and its descendants receive protection. Adding the same domain to the other list moves that exact entry rather than keeping two conflicting copies. Removing an exact rule lets the domain fall back to any applicable parent rule or to your select…