Merlin
Instant Ad-Close

Instant Ad-Close

Simple interface for advertising blocking via the webRequest API.

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What is Instant Ad-Close?
Instant Ad-Close is a simple but powerful ad-blocking extension for Firefox. It allows you to block external requests like images, Flash, and XHR using URL patterns. You can customize the extension's preferences, import/export filters, and hide private addresses from WebRTC/ICE/STUN.
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Stats
Users: 1
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 0.6.3 (Last updated: 2020-09-30)
Creation date: 2019-01-18
Weekly download count: NaN
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
  • ws://*/*
  • wss://*/*
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • unlimitedStorage
  • storage
  • privacy
Size: 41.28K
URLs: Website
Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 73362 ▲ 139
Other rankings
#215 in close keyword 20 ▲ 1 #229 in install keyword 26 ▲ 1

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Summary
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Simple but powerful ad-blocking extension for your Browser; the main goals are simplicity of implementation and performance.

Once installed, an icon should appear in your toolbar. Red means blocking is enabled, dark grey means disabled; click the icon to toggle. Preferences to customize the URI filters it uses. You can import/export filters as JSON and restore and sort it.

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Details

This extension can only block external requests (images, Flash, XHR) via the URL patterns that you can set in the extension's preferences. Through the extension options settings you also can hide private addresses from WebRTC/ICE/STUN.

User reviews
It would be great if you could put this on Github so users can contribute to filters. Edit: Now 5 stars. Great project!
by Cybo1927, 2019-11-01
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Safety
Risk impact

Instant Ad-Close is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Instant Ad-Close if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Instant Ad-Close has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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