AdPrune by Achintha Ekanayake
AdPrune removes YouTube pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll video ads by stripping ad metadata from the player response before the player can schedule an ad break. It also hides on-page ad units. No data collection, no analytics, no remote code.
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AdPrune removes YouTube video ads before the player ever schedules them.
Most blockers wait for an ad break to start, then click skip or seek past it.
AdPrune removes the ad metadata from YouTube's player response before the player reads it, so the ad break is never created. There is nothing to skip.
AdPrune collects nothing. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no
telemetry. Your settings and blocked-ad counters are stored in local extension
storage and never leave your device. No code is fetched or executed at runtime.
It requests two permissions
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Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Source: https://github.com/achintha-ekanayake/AdPrune
Most blockers wait for an ad break to start, then click skip or seek past it.
AdPrune removes the ad metadata from YouTube's player response before the player reads it, so the ad break is never created. There is nothing to skip.
- Pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll ads are removed at the source.
- On-page ad units - promoted shelves, banners, in-feed ad cards are hidden.
- Anti-adblock dialogs are dismissed.
- A fallback watchdog catches anything that slips past the main filter.
- Every feature is a toggle in the popup, and the whole add-on is one switch away from off.
AdPrune collects nothing. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no
telemetry. Your settings and blocked-ad counters are stored in local extension
storage and never leave your device. No code is fetched or executed at runtime.
It requests two permissions
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storage -
declarativeNetRequest and access to youtube.com, youtube-nocookie.com and googlevideo.com. Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Source: https://github.com/achintha-ekanayake/AdPrune
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Block content on any page
- Access your data for sites in the youtube-nocookie.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the youtube-nocookie.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the googlevideo.com domain
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
More information
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Size
- 30.57 KB
- Last updated
- 3 days ago (Aug 23, 2026)
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- License
- MIT License
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