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Stop popunder ads and clickjacking overlays that open when you click anywhere. Ads Jacker (aka Ads Buster / AdsBuster). ★ WHAT'S NEW IN 1.0.1 • Trusted-sites list added — Ads Jacker now automatically stays out of the way on Google, YouTube, Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, major social media, streaming services, and other popular sites, so it never interferes with them. • Smarter, safer detection — it now recognizes real menus, dialogs, and pop-out windows (like the Google account menu) and leaves them alone, fixing rare cases where legitimate site UI could be affected. • Better protection for video players and normal page controls. • Accuracy and stability improvements. ----- Tired of clicking anywhere on a page only to have a sketchy ad explode open in a new tab? Ads Jacker is a lightweight, privacy-first browser extension built to kill one of the most aggressive and infuriating advertising tricks on the modern web: the click-hijack. It stops the invisible overlays, popunders, and popup traps that streaming sites, download portals, link shorteners, and "free" content pages use to force ads onto you — without slowing your browser down or harvesting a single byte of your data. If you have ever tried to press "Play" on a video and instead landed on a fake prize page, a shady casino, a browser-warning scam, or an app-store redirect, you have been clickjacked. Ads Jacker is the shield that puts a stop to it. ★ THE PROBLEM: WHY A NORMAL AD BLOCKER ISN'T ENOUGH Traditional ad blockers are great at hiding banner ads using big filter lists. But clickjacking and popunder ads don't work like banners. Instead of showing you an ad, these scripts hijack your clicks: • An invisible, full-screen layer is placed on top of the real page. You can't see it, but it sits between you and everything you want to click. • The moment you click ANYWHERE — the play button, a menu, a link, even empty space — that hidden layer intercepts the click and fires off an ad in a new tab or window. • Many of these scripts use sneaky tricks specifically designed to slip past ordinary blockers, like borrowing a fresh "window.open" from a hidden iframe so the popup can't be stopped the usual way. • Often the trap removes itself after the first click, so your SECOND click finally works — which is exactly why it feels like "the site opens an ad once, then behaves." Filter-list blockers frequently miss these because the ad isn't a fixed URL or a known element — it's a behavior. Ads Jacker targets the behavior itself. ★ WHAT ADS JACKER DOES Ads Jacker watches for the tell-tale signature of a click-hijack and neutralizes it in real time, so your clicks reach the page you're actually looking at — not an ad network. Specifically, it: ✓ Removes invisible full-screen "click-trap" overlays before they can steal a click. ✓ Blocks popunder and popup ads, including the evasive hidden-iframe technique that defeats most simple popup blockers. ✓ Stops scripted new-tab opens (programmatic links and forms set to open in a new window) that fire without your intent. ✓ Lets the clicks you actually make pass straight through to the real content. ✓ Keeps working as pages re-inject their traps — these sites often re-add the overlay every few seconds, and Ads Jacker keeps clearing it for the whole life of the tab. The result: you click "Play" and the video plays. You click a link and the link opens. You click a menu and the menu opens. No surprise tabs, no popunders lurking behind your window, no scam redirects. ★ HOW IT WORKS — THREE LAYERS OF PROTECTION Ads Jacker defends on three independent layers, so if one technique is used against you, another catches it: 1) OVERLAY NEUTRALISER It detects the defining shape of a clickjacker — an invisible element that spans the entire viewport, sits on top of everything, and holds no real content — and makes it harmless so your clicks land on the page beneath. Crucially, it tells the difference between a malicious trap and a legitimate full-screen layer (like the dismiss layer behind an open dropdown menu) by looking at WHEN the layer appeared: a real menu shows up right after you click to open it, while a clickjacker appears on its own at page load or on a timer. 2) POPUP / POPUNDER GUARD It intercepts the ways ad scripts open new tabs and windows. Pop-ups you intentionally trigger with a click — signing in with a popup, opening a "Share" window, a donation window — are allowed through, because they happen during a genuine user gesture. Pop-unders and auto-opening ads that fire on their own are blocked. It also closes the advanced "borrowed iframe" loophole that lets ads grab an unguarded window.open from a throwaway frame. 3) CLICK GUARD A final backstop that catches any click landing on a detected trap, so even a freshly injected overlay can't get a free shot. Because these layers focus on behavior rather than a list of known ad URLs, Ads Jacker keeps working even as sites change their tactics — and it needs no constant filter-list updates. ★ SMART, NOT BLUNT — IT WON'T BREAK THE SITES YOU USE A blocker that's too aggressive is just as annoying as the ads. Ads Jacker is engineered to leave real websites alone: • It never hides video players or embedded media. A player wrapper can look like a full-screen layer, so Ads Jacker specifically protects anything containing a video, iframe, or canvas — your stream keeps playing and showing. • It respects real menus, modals, dialogs, and pop-out windows. Dropdown menus, cookie banners, sign-in popups, share sheets, and app dialogs (the kind used across Google Docs, design tools, dashboards, and countless web apps) keep working, because Ads Jacker recognizes that legitimate UI appears in response to your actions. • It allows the popups YOU ask for. Click a button that's meant to open a new window and it opens. This balance — block the traps, keep the web usable — is the whole point. ★ HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS (AND ISN'T) Ads Jacker is a specialist, not a one-size-fits-all blocker. It focuses on clickjacking overlays, popunders, and popup/new-tab ad traps — the "click anywhere and an ad opens" family of attacks. It is the perfect companion to a traditional, filter-list ad blocker, and many users run both: a classic blocker for banner and video ads, plus Ads Jacker for the click-hijack tricks those blockers tend to miss. It does not sell your data, inject its own ads, add affiliate links, or hijack your searches — and it never will. ★ KEY FEATURES AT A GLANCE • Blocks clickjacking overlays (invisible full-page click traps) • Blocks popunder and popup ads, including the evasive hidden-iframe bypass • Stops scripted new-tab / new-window ad opens • Allows the popups and menus you actually use — low false positives by design • Protects video players and embedded media from being hidden • Keeps clearing traps that re-inject themselves over time • Per-site pause (whitelist) with one click • Global on/off switch • Live block counters — per site and all-time total • Clear toolbar badge: a count when active, a green check when a site is whitelisted • Optional, fully local activity log so you can see exactly what was blocked • 100% private — no tracking, no analytics, no external servers • Lightweight and fast — no giant filter lists to download or update • Works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, and other Chromium-based browsers ★ FULL CONTROL — IT'S YOUR BROWSER Click the toolbar icon to open the Ads Jacker popup, where you can: • See how many traps have been blocked on the current site and in total. • Pause protection on the current site instantly if you ever want to (it's added to your whitelist). The badge turns into a green check so you always know a site is excused. • Turn protection on or off globally. Open the Settings page for deeper control: • WHITELIST MANAGER — view every paused site, add a domain by hand, or remove sites with a single click. • STATISTICS — see your all-time total, how many sites you've blocked traps on, and a leaderboard of your most-blocked sites. • ACTIVITY LOG TOGGLE — turn the detailed log on or off. • RESET — clear your statistics whenever you like. Everything is yours to control, and everything stays on your device. ★ THE ACTIVITY LOG — SEE EXACTLY WHAT GOT BLOCKED Curious what Ads Jacker is doing on a page? The built-in Activity Log shows a live, newest-first record of every block, including: • The type of block (overlay removed, popup blocked, popunder blocked, new-tab blocked). • The site it happened on, and whether it came from an embedded frame. • For overlays: the element's selector, size, position, and a snippet of its HTML, captured before removal. • For popups: the destination URL the ad tried to open. You can filter the log, clear it, or switch logging off entirely. It keeps a rolling window of the most recent entries and is stored only on your computer — it is never uploaded anywhere. It's perfect for power users, and it makes reporting a rare false positive easy: just note what you saw and pause that site. ★ PRIVACY FIRST — BY DESIGN, NOT BY PROMISE Your privacy is the entire reason this extension exists, so it collects nothing: • NO tracking. NO analytics. NO telemetry. NO fingerprinting. • NO external servers — Ads Jacker makes no network requests to function. • NO accounts, NO sign-up, NO ads of its own. • Your settings, whitelist, and block counts are stored locally on your device using the browser's own storage, and they never leave it. • Removing the extension removes the data with it. Ads Jacker inspects and modifies page behavior locally, inside your browser, to stop traps — it does not read, collect, or transmit the content of the pages you visit. ★ PERFECT FOR • Anyone who watches sports, movies, or TV on free streaming sites. • People who use file-hosting, download, and link-shortener pages. • Readers of forums, blogs, and "free content" sites that bankroll themselves with pop-under ads. • Parents who want fewer scam redirects and fake "you won a prize" / fake virus-warning pages reaching the family computer. • Anyone who's tired of mystery tabs opening behind their browser window. • Privacy-minded users who want protection without a tracking-laden "free" tool. ★ LIGHTWEIGHT & FAST Ads Jacker is built on Manifest V3 with a tiny, efficient codebase. There are no megabytes of filter lists to download, no background updates to wait on, and no noticeable impact on page-load speed. It does its work quietly the moment a page loads and gets out of your way. ★ PERMISSIONS — EXPLAINED IN PLAIN ENGLISH Chrome will tell you Ads Jacker can "read and change all your data on all websites." That sounds scary, but here's exactly why it's needed and what it actually means: • Clickjacking traps can appear on ANY website, so the protection must be able to run everywhere to detect and neutralize them. This access is used purely to inspect and adjust page behavior locally in your browser. • "storage" — to save your settings, whitelist, and block counters on your own device. • "activeTab" — so the popup can show the name of the site you're currently on. That's it. No data is collected or sent anywhere. You can read the full, plain-language privacy policy from the listing. ★ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: Is Ads Jacker a replacement for my regular ad blocker? A: No — it's a specialist that complements it. Classic ad blockers hide banner and video ads with filter lists; Ads Jacker stops clickjacking overlays and popunders that those blockers often miss. Running both gives you the best coverage. Q: Will it break websites? A: It's specifically designed not to. It protects video players and respects real menus, modals, and the popups you intentionally open. If you ever hit a problem on a site you trust, you can pause Ads Jacker there in one click. Q: A pop-up I wanted got blocked. What do I do? A: Most intentional popups are allowed automatically. If a site truly needs one, just pause Ads Jacker for that site from the toolbar popup — it's whitelisted instantly. Q: Does it slow down my browser? A: No. There are no large filter lists and the code is intentionally minimal, so there's no meaningful performance cost. Q: Does it collect or sell my data? A: Never. It collects nothing, sends nothing, and has no external server. Everything stays on your device. Q: Which browsers are supported? A: Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge and Brave. Q: Does it block YouTube or other big-site ads? A: Ads Jacker targets clickjacking and popunder/popup traps, which are most common on streaming, download, and free-content sites. For traditional in-page and in-video ads, pair it with a classic ad blocker. ★ GET STARTED IN SECONDS 1) Add Ads Jacker to your browser. 2) Browse as normal — protection is on automatically. 3) Click the toolbar icon any time to see what's been blocked, or to pause a site. That's all there is to it. Install Ads Jacker (Ads Buster) today and take back control of your clicks — no more hijacked taps, no more surprise tabs, no more popunder ambushes. Ads Jacker — block the ads that hijack your clicks. Private. Lightweight. On your side.