Ackless by obambulo studio
Open-source browser extension that hides Australian Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country blocks.
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About this extension
Hides repetitive Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement of Country blocks on Australian (.au) sites. Local 24-hour activity log only—nothing sent to a server. Firefox 140+.
Ackless scans pages for common acknowledgement wording and hides matching banners, modals, footers, and similar blocks. It can dismiss some acknowledgement dialogs via safe in-page controls (e.g. Continue, Close). A small, fixed list of place names in visible text may be replaced with alternative names when those words appear (see source:
Where it runs
- By default:
- Other sites: only after you click Enable on this site in the popup.
Activity (local only)
- 24-hour log on your device: hostnames, short excerpts of hidden blocks, rename counts.
- Toolbar badge with hidden-block count; View activity for details, JSON export, or Clear all.
- No analytics, no cloud sync, no remote rule lists.
- Private/incognito: hiding may still run; stats are not saved.
Permissions
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Data
No data transmitted off your device. Manifest declares
Early release: matching is conservative; false positives/negatives are possible. Report examples on the GitHub issue tracker.
Ackless scans pages for common acknowledgement wording and hides matching banners, modals, footers, and similar blocks. It can dismiss some acknowledgement dialogs via safe in-page controls (e.g. Continue, Close). A small, fixed list of place names in visible text may be replaced with alternative names when those words appear (see source:
src/place-names.ts).Where it runs
- By default:
*.au sites and localhost.- Other sites: only after you click Enable on this site in the popup.
Activity (local only)
- 24-hour log on your device: hostnames, short excerpts of hidden blocks, rename counts.
- Toolbar badge with hidden-block count; View activity for details, JSON export, or Clear all.
- No analytics, no cloud sync, no remote rule lists.
- Private/incognito: hiding may still run; stats are not saved.
Permissions
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storage — settings and local activity log-
activeTab — current tab host in the popup-
tabs — open/focus the Activity page-
scripting — register scripts on sites you opt intoData
No data transmitted off your device. Manifest declares
data_collection_permissions: none (Firefox 140+).Early release: matching is conservative; false positives/negatives are possible. Report examples on the GitHub issue tracker.
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access browser tabs
- Access your data for sites in the au domain
- Access your data for localhost
- Access your data for 127.0.0.1
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
More information
- Add-on Links
- Version
- 0.1.1
- Size
- 35.8 KB
- Last updated
- 13 days ago (Jun 3, 2026)
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- License
- MIT License
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- Version History
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