Hetzblocker

Name: Hetzblocker
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Mark Lindhout

By: Mark Lindhout

Blocks links and requests to websites from inflammatory media such as Axel Springer, Telegraaf Media Groep, and others.

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Features & Capabilities

Hetzblocker is a browser extension for Chrome, Chromium and Firefox. It blocks inflammatory media outlets, their publishers, and associated sites.

Features

Blocks all requests to inflammatory media and platforms — Axel Springer, De Telegraaf, and many more.
Saves you stress from the article — and its comments!
Indicates and disables links to blocked sites everywhere.
Handy for search result and source reference sections!

Thanks To This extension is heavily inspired by autinerd’s hosts file, and revengeday’s and rleh’s work on browser extensions. Thanks guys!

Contribute Want to help out? Tell everyone about the extension! For those of you who would like to help out in a more direct manner: I’m still looking for people to help maintain the block list or add translations. If you’d like to join the party, please drop me a line on GitHub at https://github.com/marklindhout/hetzblocker/ or send me an email.

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Version:

0.7.3 Last updated: 2020-08-01

Version code:

5073930

Creation date:

2019-04-27

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Content scripts matches:

Size:

451.75KB

Email:

he*****@gmail.com

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-09

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# 20,086 ▲ 326

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Developed by:

Mark Lindhout

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hetzblocker/

Email:

he*****@gmail.com

Website:

https://marklindhout.github.io/hetzblocker/

User Reviews

by 远离*****, 2025-04-14

by 敬念*****, 2025-03-09

Blockiert die entsprechenden Seiten zuverlässig, aber sorgt leider für massive Performanceprobleme auf den meisten anderen Websites (Firefox 110.0.1).

by Fi*****, 2023-03-12

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Is Hetzblocker Safe?

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.

Hetzblocker requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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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.

Hetzblocker is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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