Changelog

What's new

Every release, documented. No surprises.

v0.9.17July 31, 2026

FeedGuard hides Facebook ads & a clearer Shield warning

Improved: FeedGuard now hides the sponsored posts in your Facebook feed — it used to only spot them. Posts are classified on your device and hidden locally in your browser; Facebook's own payload is never altered (Pro)
Improved: Redesigned Shield warning card — clearer wording, and it's the one place we ask, once, whether you'd like to help protect others

v0.9.5July 2026

New: The Security Shield adds on-device scam guards — Credential Sentry (warns before you type a password into a lookalike login page), Seed-phrase guard, Clipboard-swap protection, Fake-checkout Shield, paste-and-run protection, and lookalike-domain detection (Pro)
New: Scare-page Shield covers fake "your PC is infected" pages with a dismissible warning — it reacts after the page loads, so it does not block the page in advance (Pro)
New: Cookie-banner auto-hiding across the major consent platforms — OneTrust, Cookiebot, Didomi, Quantcast, TrustArc, Usercentrics — plus common generic markup (Pro)
Honest note: the Shield reads what you type and copy on the page to make these checks. It's all judged on your device and dropped — nothing you type or copy is stored or sent

v0.9.0July 2026

New: Shield Link-Cleaner strips tracking parameters (utm_source, fbclid, gclid and the like) from links as they load — off by default (Pro)
Changed: Adless now asks for access to all http/https sites (*://*/*). Two things need it: the Security Shield's on-device scam detectors, which have to be able to run wherever a phishing page appears, and the Link-Cleaner's redirect rule. Chrome does the redirect in its own network stack — Adless never sees the address, and no page contents leave your browser

v0.8.0July 2026

New: Pro adds address-level matching against the full 550,000+ phishing and malware address feed, refreshed every 6 hours. The match runs entirely on your device — no address you visit is ever sent anywhere to look it up

v0.7.2July 25, 2026

Fix: Sign-in, payment and banking pages (Google, Microsoft, Apple and more) always work — Adless now stays completely out of them, even while active
Fix: Pausing Adless on a site instantly turns everything off — on every site, not just YouTube
New: Live malware and crypto-miner protection that updates quietly in the background — no update needed
New: "Something's broken here?" in the popup — one tap pauses the site and, only if you choose, sends us just the site's name so we can push a fix fast
Improved: The popup now shows an honest count of what Adless actually hid on the page — no more misleading numbers
New: A clear, first-run explanation of the permissions Adless needs and why, plus a built-in help center
Improved: Faster, more reliable start-up

v0.7.1July 25, 2026

Improved: Your custom YouTube grid now shows from the very first frame — no more brief flash of YouTube's default layout while the page loads
Improved: Lighter, smoother YouTube page loads

v0.7.0July 24, 2026

New: Malware and scam-site protection now updates automatically in the background — no extension update required
New: Protection stays current between releases, delivered securely

v0.6.3July 24, 2026

v0.6.1July 24, 2026

New: Turn Adless off for a whole domain and its subdomains in one click (e.g. everything under google.com)
Improved: Faster first video load on YouTube

v0.6.0July 24, 2026

New: Automatically hides cookie and consent pop-ups
New: Anti-adblock protection — many sites that nag you to turn off your blocker now simply work
Improved: More thorough blocking of common ad and tracking scripts

v0.5.2July 2026

v0.5.1July 2026

Fix: Your YouTube layout now applies before the page appears, so you never see a flash of the default layout

v0.5.0July 2026