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Blocks ads and trackers at the network level, clears the clutter they leave behind, and preloads links you are about to open. Sodium is a lightweight content blocker built on Chrome's declarativeNetRequest engine. It works on the request layer — unwanted requests are stopped before they are made, rather than hidden after the page has already paid to load them. WHAT IT DOES • Blocks ad and tracker requests using 60 static rules that ship inside the extension. No rule list is downloaded at runtime. • Replaces well-known ad and analytics scripts with inert local stubs instead of blocking them outright. Many sites hide their own content when an ad script fails to load; a stub keeps the page's own callbacks running so the article you came for still appears. • Removes the empty shells that blocked content leaves behind — the blank grid cells, collapsed sidebars, and reserved slots that make a blocked page look broken. • Cleans ad breaks out of video player responses on major video sites, so the timeline reflects the actual video. • Preloads a link shortly after you hover it, so the page you were going to open next is already on its way. DESIGN NOTES • No account, no sign-in, no settings to configure. • Nothing is sent anywhere. Sodium makes no network requests of its own. • No remote code, no eval, no downloaded configuration. • The toolbar icon turns red when the built-in rules stop matching what a site actually serves — that is your signal that the extension needs an update, rather than silently doing nothing. Sodium is open about its limits: it blocks what its bundled rules describe, and tells you when they go stale.