Instant Ad-Close

Name: Instant Ad-Close
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Francesco De Stefano

By: Francesco De Stefano

Simple interface for advertising blocking via the webRequest API.

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Features & Capabilities

Simple but powerful ad-blocking extension for your Browser; the main goals are simplicity of implementation and performance.

Once installed, an icon should appear in your toolbar. Red means blocking is enabled, dark grey means disabled; click the icon to toggle. Preferences to customize the URI filters it uses. You can import/export filters as JSON and restore and sort it.

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Details

This extension can only block external requests (images, Flash, XHR) via the URL patterns that you can set in the extension's preferences. Through the extension options settings you also can hide private addresses from WebRTC/ICE/STUN.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Version:

0.6.3 Last updated: 2020-09-30

Version code:

5107788

Creation date:

2019-01-18

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Permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*
ws://*/*
wss://*/*
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
unlimitedStorage
storage
privacy

Content scripts matches:

Size:

40.31KB

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Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-03

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Ranking

# 79,485 ▼ 21,580

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Developed by:

Francesco De Stefano

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/instant-ad-close/

Website:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/instant-ad-close/

User Reviews

It would be great if you could put this on Github so users can contribute to filters. Edit: Now 5 stars. Great project!

by Cy*****, 2019-11-01

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Is Instant Ad-Close 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.

Instant Ad-Close requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. 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

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Instant Ad-Close has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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