Protect AD

Name: Protect AD
Author: vmonte845

The extension Protect AD allows you to block many types of advertising under your complete control.

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2025-05-13 due to malware

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Protect AD is a powerful Chrome extension that allows users to block various types of online advertising under their full control. It effectively removes pop-ups, auto-playing video ads with sound, pop-under ads, and intrusive banners, providing a much cleaner and safer browsing environment.

Users can customize their experience by whitelisting preferred websites and selectively allowing certain ad types to support their favorite content creators. Beyond ad blocking, Protect AD safeguards your privacy by preventing advertisers from tracking your online behavior, encrypting all communications, and ensuring no personal browsing data is collected. This extension also improves loading times and saves bandwidth by filtering out unwanted advertisements.

With a commitment to user confidentiality, Protect AD stores only minimal usage statistics and never connects user activity to personal identity. Its permissions are strictly related to ad blocking and notifications, and expert support is available through a feedback feature. Protect AD combines functionality with respect for privacy, making it an ideal choice for users seeking a customizable, secure, and ad-free browsing experience.

Extension Privacy & Security Productivity Utilities

By:

vmonte845

Users:

3,000

Version:

4.3.1 Last updated: 2025-05-03

Creation date:

2025-05-03

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
scripting
storage
alarms
declarativeNetRequest

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Size:

1.14MB

Email:

vm*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a month ago

Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Protect AD 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.

Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. 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 Chrome extension.

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