AdsKickerBlocks ads and trackers
Requests to known ad and tracking networks are dropped before they load, and leftover ad slots are hidden. The toolbar badge counts what was blocked on each page.
Free extension for Chrome, Edge, and Brave
Block ads and trackers. Blur what you didn't ask to see.
AdsKicker stops ad and tracking requests before they load, hides leftover ad slots, blurs suspected adult images, and asks before you open adult links. It all happens in your browser, and nothing is collected.
What it does
Three jobs, done quietly
Blurs suspected adult images
Images, video posters, and backgrounds whose address, description, or link points at adult content are blurred. Click one to see it, or report it as safe.
Asks before adult links
Before you follow a link to a known adult site, AdsKicker asks whether you're 18 or older. It's a reminder, not a lock.
You're in charge
Easy to adjust, site by site
- Pause a site for good or for an hour, from the toolbar or with Alt+Shift+K. The icon turns grey wherever AdsKicker is off.
- Hide anything that slips through. It stays hidden on that site, and Undo brings it back.
- Fix mistakes by reporting an image as safe, or blurring one it missed.
- Add your own blocked domains, adult sites, and words in the settings.
- Take it with you: your settings follow your Chrome profile when sync is on.
Private by design
Nothing leaves your browser
AdsKicker has no servers, no accounts, and no analytics, and it makes no network requests of its own. It reads pages only to hide ads and check images and links, and it does that on your device.
Read the privacy policyInstall
Up and running in a minute
AdsKicker isn't in the Chrome Web Store yet, so you add it as an unpacked extension. It works the same way.
- Download adskicker-1.3.0.zip and unzip it.
- Open
chrome://extensionsand turn on Developer mode. In Edge, openedge://extensions; in Brave,brave://extensions. - Click Load unpacked and choose the
adskickerfolder. - Pin AdsKicker from the puzzle-piece menu, so you can see what it's doing.
Good to know
What it can't do
- It matches words and domains; it doesn't look at the pixels of images. It misses explicit images on unlisted sites and sometimes blurs harmless ones. Report those as safe.
- The age check is a reminder, not age verification or parental control.
- Ads served from a site's own domain, such as YouTube's video ads, get through.