
The most powerful ad blockers can remove YouTube video advertising and even scrub sponsored posts from your social media feed. To eradicate these and other forms of digital advertising you need a dedicated blocker.

Your web browser is already designed to block the very worst types of malicious advertising – like those spammy pop-up windows that plagued the early internet – but modern advertisers use more sophisticated techniques to get their ads in front of you. This allows your web browser to accept the useful parts of a website and filter out the rest. The extension does not record your browsing history, capture your passwords or bank account numbers, or secretly collect or change data you submit on a web form.In the most basic sense, ad blockers work by checking all of the content that appears in your web browser against a giant list of URLs known to host advertising, then simply not running the code required to display the advertising in your browser window. It's important to know that just because AdBlock can see everything on a web page, it doesn't mean it actually does anything with it.

When you install AdBlock for the first time, AdBlock will request some permissions to operate within your browser.
