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Blocks ads, trackers and known malicious sites with built-in filter lists. Private by design: no data collection. Veilkeep blocks advertising, tracking and known malicious websites using filter lists that are built into the extension and applied by Chrome itself. What it does • Blocks ad requests (EasyList) and trackers such as analytics scripts and tracking pixels (EasyPrivacy). • Blocks navigation to URLs recently reported for distributing malware (URLhaus). • Optionally hides leftover ad spaces and page clutter (element hiding). This needs your permission to change the pages you visit; you can allow it for all sites or only for the sites you choose. • Optional annoyance filtering: cookie notices, newsletter pop-ups and social-media widgets (off by default). • YouTube: removes the ad instructions YouTube sends to its own player (so video ads are not requested), hides ad containers, and as a fallback can mute an ad and press YouTube's Skip button. YouTube changes often, so an ad can occasionally still appear. In control • Turn blocking off for a site in one click, pause it for an hour or until you restart the browser, or pause protection everywhere. • See how many requests were blocked on the current page and which filters matched. • Write your own blocking, exception and element-hiding rules. • Export and import your settings. Private by design • No analytics, no telemetry, no advertising, no account. • Veilkeep makes no network requests of its own. It does not download rules while you browse; lists are updated with extension updates. • Settings and statistics stay in your browser. Limitations No ad blocker catches everything. Some ads are served from the same servers as the content, and some filters used by other blockers require running scripts in pages, which Veilkeep does not do. If a site misbehaves, turn Veilkeep off for that site from the toolbar button. Filter lists: EasyList and EasyPrivacy (GPLv3 / CC BY-SA), Fanboy's Annoyance List (CC BY 3.0), URLhaus filter (CC0/MIT). Their authors do not endorse Veilkeep. Veilkeep is free software under the GNU GPL v3.