Scam Blocker & Ad Blocker — Adless

Adless is a scam blocker and ad blocker for people who want fewer distractions and more warning before a risky click. It blocks ads, pop-up and pop-under ad networks, and trackers with Chrome's own engine, helps steer you away from phishing and scam pages before they cause trouble, and tidies YouTube — hide the Shorts shelf, set how many videos per row, and boost the volume on videos that were mixed too quietly — all on your device. It shows no ads of its own, never nags you, and it builds no profile of you: nothing about your browsing leaves your browser unless you tap Send on a report, or switch on the optional "Help protect others" scam report described below. ────────────────────────────────────────────── 🚫 ELIMINATE ADS & TRACKERS — FREE FOREVER ────────────────────────────────────────────── Adless removes ads, trackers, and known malicious hosts using Chrome's built-in declarativeNetRequest engine. Your requests never pass through our code, and no URL you visit is ever logged or sent to us. Camouflage, our anti-adblock countermeasure, keeps blocking alive on the sites that fight ad blockers hardest — free, and staying free. It activates only on sites known to run anti-adblock walls and deliberately stays away from login, banking, and checkout pages. Need an exception? Pause Adless on any site with one click — permanently, or for just 24 hours. ────────────────────────────────────────────── 📺 YOUTUBE VOLUME BOOSTER & LAYOUT TIDY — FREE ────────────────────────────────────────────── ✓ Volume booster — boost quiet videos up to 3× louder, even when the player's own slider is already at maximum. The gain runs in your browser's audio pipeline, on your device. It stays off until you move the slider, at its lowest setting your audio is completely untouched, and it re-applies itself as you move between videos, including Shorts and the miniplayer. ✓ Videos per row — set your own grid density: 3 to 8 videos per row, 3 to 8 community posts per row, 4 to 10 Shorts per row. ✓ Hide the Shorts shelf so Home is just videos again, and fix oversized thumbnails. ✓ Hide the AI "Ask" button, the Playables games shelf and the notification bell — and stop long video titles being truncated. ✓ Hide promoted videos and shopping shelves — an opt-in tidy, off until you switch it on, that removes the promoted tiles from Home, Search and the watch sidebar, plus merch and product shelves. It does not remove the ads played inside videos: those come from the site's own servers, and network blocking has nothing to catch there. ✓ Your choices survive YouTube's own redesigns. Fixes ship as remote data within 24 hours, so a breakage heals without an update to install or a store-review wait. ────────────────────────────────────────────── 🛡 SECURITY SHIELD — PHISHING & SCAM PROTECTION ────────────────────────────────────────────── Adless checks the sites you open against a database of 550,000+ known phishing and malware web addresses, refreshed every 6 hours. Matching runs entirely on your device — checking a page costs no network request, and no address is sent anywhere to look it up. Curated site-level blocking is included free and switched on; full address-level matching against the whole feed is Pro. Every warning is shown in your own language — 12 languages. ✓ Scare-page Shield (Pro) — spots fake "your PC is infected" tech-support pages and covers them with a dismissible warning you can leave from. It reacts to the page after it has loaded — it does not block the page in advance, and we do not claim it does. ✓ Lookalike-domain detection (Pro) — flags homograph and impersonation domains on your device. ✓ Credential Sentry (Pro) — warns you before you type a password into a lookalike login page. ✓ Seed-phrase guard (Pro) — blocks pages fishing for a crypto-wallet recovery phrase. ✓ Fake-checkout Shield (Pro) — warns you when a page presents itself as a major brand while collecting raw card numbers on a domain that brand does not own. ✓ Paste-and-run protection (Pro) — catches the "press Win+R and paste this" lure that talks people into running an attacker's command themselves. ✓ Clipboard-swap protection (Pro) — stops a malicious page from silently rewriting an address or wallet you copied. ────────────────────────────────────────────── 🤝 HELP PROTECT OTHERS — OPTIONAL, OFF BY DEFAULT ────────────────────────────────────────────── Brand-new scam sites are the gap every blocklist has: a domain registered this morning is on no public feed yet. Adless can help close that gap — but only if you switch this on. If you turn it on, then whenever one of the Shield's scam checks fires, Adless reports two things and nothing else: which check fired (credential sentry, scare page, seed phrase, fake checkout, paste-and-run, clipboard swap or brand-clone), and the bare domain it fired on — for example evil-site.com, with any subdomain stripped. Never the full web address, never the page or its contents, never your history, never anything you typed or copied, and no identifier of any kind: nothing in the report says which browser or which person it came from. It is off by default and stays off until you say yes. You are asked once, on a Shield warning card. "No" is final and is never asked again. You can switch it on or off at any time in Settings → Protection → "Help protect others". When five reports name the same domain within seven days, that domain enters a queue a human reviews. Nothing is ever added to Adless's threat lists automatically. Straight about the trade: this report protects the next person, not you. Six of the seven checks send only after they have already warned you, on your device. The seventh, brand-clone, is still being validated — it reports what it found without showing you anything, which is exactly why it is named above rather than left unsaid. Either way this is the on…