# Artblock

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

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/artblock](https://chrome-stats.com/d/artblock)

## Overview

- **ID:** `artblock`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** joshycodes
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 118
- **Weekly downloads:** 15
- **Rating:** 4.56 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-23
- **First published:** 2026-04-20
- **Size:** 48 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/artblock/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/vuciv/artblock/issues](https://github.com/vuciv/artblock/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/artblock/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/artblock/privacy/)

## Description

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:
<ul><li><strong>Art Institute of Chicago</strong> — paintings, Japanese woodblock prints, photography (Monet, Hokusai, O'Keeffe, and thousands more)</li><li><strong>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</strong> — centuries of painting, sculpture, and design</li><li><strong>NASA Image Library</strong> — nebulae, galaxies, Earthrise, the Pillars of Creation, astronaut portraits</li></ul>
Features
<ul><li>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.</li><li>Pick a mood: Impressionism, Japanese Woodblock, Renaissance, Photography, Modern/Contemporary, NASA Space, or Chaos Mode (everything mixed).</li><li>Never shows you the same image twice in a session.</li><li>Hover any replaced ad to see the title, artist, date, and source museum.</li><li>Tracks how many ads it has replaced on the current page with a badge.</li></ul>
Privacy
<ul><li>No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts, no tracking.</li><li>No data leaves your browser except direct requests to the three public museum/NASA APIs to fetch art.</li><li>Works entirely client-side. Open-source: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/c7c2247b6bae96fbdc9761dfedb9aab5af5079d29afbcff6e1a7ea9f1c5a5415/https%3A//github.com/vuciv/artblock" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vuciv/artblock</a></li></ul>
The internet should be beautiful. Put it back.

## Rankings

- #10,723 — Overall
- #116 — fart
- #126 — writer's block
- #152 — blockchain
- #153 — block ads
- #181 — unblock

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/artblock)