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CleanSearch — Ad Blocker

Established publisherManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Clean up Google Search, Maps, YouTube and Twitch. Hides promotional elements and distractions for focused browsing.

Users
14
−2 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
4
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#169K
#140K among extensions
Version
2.2.0
updated 23 Jun 2026

Users

monthly, 4 months
0714Jun 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 14 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 4 months
024Jun 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 4 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About CleanSearch — Ad Blocker

🛡️ CleanSearch — Clean Browsing on Google Tired of clutter getting in the way of your search results? CleanSearch tidies up your Google experience by hiding promotional elements and distractions so you only see what matters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ WHAT IT DOES • Google Search — Hides promotional elements and commercially highlighted results for a cleaner view • Google Maps — Cleans up Maps results by removing promoted listings • Network Requests — Blocks requests to 20+ known ad domains (DoubleClick, Google Syndication, etc.) • YouTube — Hides pre-roll, mid-roll and banner overlay ads • Twitch — Minimizes ad interruptions during streams ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST — ZERO DATA COLLECTION CleanSearch collects absolutely NO user data: • Does not track browsing history • Does not log searches • Does not collect personal information • Does not send data to external servers • Does not use analytics or tracking tools • Works 100% offline after installation Your preferences (on/off state, whitelisted sites, counter) are stored exclusively on YOUR device using Chrome's local storage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ FEATURES • Multi-layer protection: Network blocking + CSS hiding + Dynamic detection • Per-category controls: Enable/disable protection on Search and Maps independently • Domain whitelist: Easily disable protection on specific sites • Badge counter: See how many elements were hidden on each page • Stats panel: Track hidden elements daily and in total • Multi-language support: Detects promotional elements in 15+ languages • Lightweight: Minimal impact on page load speed • Zero configuration: Works right after installation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 HOW IT WORKS CleanSearch uses a three-layer approach: 1️⃣ Network Layer — Blocks requests to known ad domains before they load (using Chrome's declarativeNetRequest API) 2️⃣ CSS Layer — Hides known ad containers using injected stylesheets 3️⃣ Detection Layer — Uses text-based detection to find and hide elements labeled as promotional content, across multiple languages, adapting to page structure changes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 SUPPORTED LANGUAGES CleanSearch detects promotional elements in: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Korean, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED • declarativeNetRequest — Filter network requests • storage — Save your preferences locally • activeTab — Read current URL for whitelist feature • tabs — Update per-tab badge counter • Host permissions — Inject scripts to hide elements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📧 SUPPORT Questions or suggestions? Contact us at octonoveads@gmail.com Enjoy a cleaner Google experience! 🎉

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days−1−6.7%00.00
30 days−2−12.5%00.00

Version history

1 versions recorded
2.2.023 Jun 2026

Details

Category
Privacy & Security
First seen
23 Jun 2026
Size
67 KB
Languages
en, es
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
gist.github.com
Support
instagram.com
Extension ID
dojkneieknplckkkhdcfgppeaefkhbnf

Permissions and risk

Elevated riskimpact 4, likelihood 2
Permissions
declarativeNetRequeststorageactiveTabtabs
Site access
*://*.google.com/**://*.google.es/**://*.google.co.uk/**://*.google.de/**://*.google.fr/**://*.google.it/**://*.google.com.br/**://*.google.com.mx/**://*.google.com.ar/**://*.google.co.jp/*and 13 more

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