# Nightshade Barriers

> A lightweight ad and tracker blocker that keeps many ads and tracker scripts from loading, speeding up your browsing and protecting your privacy.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `nsbarriers`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** rav3ndust
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2020-11-20
- **First published:** 2020-11-20
- **Size:** 320 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nsbarriers/)
- **Website:** [https://www.rav3ndust.xyz/nsbarriers.html](https://www.rav3ndust.xyz/nsbarriers.html)

## Description

Nightshade Barriers is a lightweight ad and tracker blocker that keeps many ads and tracker scripts from loading, speeding up your browsing and protecting your privacy.

## Rankings

- #145,493 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `http://*/`
- `https://*/`

## 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 website URL may be invalid

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