Artblock Firefox

Artblock

Replaces every ad on the internet with fine art from the world's greatest museums.

Features & Capabilities

Artblock turns every ad you see on the internet into a masterpiece.

Instead of banners, pop-ups, sponsored widgets, and "you may also like" clickbait, Artblock fills those slots with fine art, historical photography, and cosmic imagery from three of the world's great open-access collections:

  • Art Institute of Chicago — paintings, Japanese woodblock prints, photography (Monet, Hokusai, O'Keeffe, and thousands more)
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art — centuries of painting, sculpture, and design
  • NASA Image Library — nebulae, galaxies, Earthrise, the Pillars of Creation, astronaut portraits
Features
  • Detects Google Ads, DoubleClick, Amazon ads, Taboola/Outbrain, MGID, RevContent, sponsored content blocks, affiliate widgets, and inline newsletter/paywall prompts — then replaces them with a piece of art sized to fit.
  • Pick a mood: Impressionism, Japanese Woodblock, Renaissance, Photography, Modern/Contemporary, NASA Space, or Chaos Mode (everything mixed).
  • Never shows you the same image twice in a session.
  • Hover any replaced ad to see the title, artist, date, and source museum.
  • Tracks how many ads it has replaced on the current page with a badge.
Privacy
  • No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts, no tracking.
  • No data leaves your browser except direct requests to the three public museum/NASA APIs to fetch art.
  • Works entirely client-side. Open-source: https://github.com/vuciv/artblock
The internet should be beautiful. Put it back.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V3 Add-on
By:
joshycodes
Daily users:
133 -11
Rating:
4.56
(9)
Version:
1.1.1 Last updated: 2026-04-23
Version code:
6232820
Creation date:
2026-04-20
Risk:
Moderate risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Content scripts matches:
  • <all_urls>
Size:
48.23KB
Email:
xx*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-10
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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
joshycodes
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/artblock/
Email:
xx*****@gmail.com
Website:
https://github.com/vuciv/artblock/issues

User Reviews

by Fi*****, 2026-05-28

Good idea in practice, extremely slow in reality, quite a shame. I had high expectations.
by Mo*****, 2026-05-26

I REALLY REALLY love the idea and this product, however, sometimes the ad block removes really important stuff, such as the options for images or shopping when using duck duck go. I think if stuff like this can be fixed, this will be perfect.
by Ja*****, 2026-05-24
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Is Artblock Safe?

Risk impact
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Artblock requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Artblock is recently added, and hasn't been around long enough for us to gather enough data to accurately assess its risk level.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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