I use the Spotify website on my laptop and I've been using Blockify for Spotify from the Chrome Webstore. They just recently took the extension down and I really need alternatives (preferably one that skips ads and doesn't just mute them).
So I don’t know if this will work for everyone but what I have been doing is using safari to block Spotify ads, I downloaded wBlock from the App Store and I don’t know if Nextdns does anything but I also have that on, so now that you have this just enable wBlock for safari in the settings, now go to safari and (request desktop mode) and then just play a playlist. you guys can mess around with the set up and stuff just let me know if it works.
 | I was on one of those sites, and I think I got an ad for it and got tricked into installing it. IT WORKS VERY WELL, but I'm trying to figure out if it's malicious in some way. It blocks ads everywhere including youtube and even removes empty boxes and divs when doing so. Has anyone used this thing? I can't find reviews anywhere else outside of the Chrome Web Store.
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 | Recebi essa mensagem hoje quando fui abrir o Chrome, de que o bloqueador de anúncios do spotify, o blockify foi removido por malware e não será possÃvel usar ela como extensão mais. O que acontece é que, de acordo com o próprio site do blockify, eles receberam algum tipo de banimento tanto na conta do desenvolvedor quanto na extensão em si, e acreditem, não foi por malware. De acordo com o site oficial, eles derrubaram a extensão de bloqueio de anúncios do spotify por um tipo de violação de marca registrada, sendo chamado pelo autor do site como um abuso de poder. Em outros fóruns do Reddit estão criando teorias de que o Spotify pagou para retirar essa extensão e que há coisas por trás dos panos e por isso não colocaram o motivo do banimento da extensão, mas sim, colocaram o motivo de "malware" mas sem dizer qual é, para usuários não pesquisarem e acharem um falso positivo. A recomendação do site oficial do Blockify é NÃO BAIXAR QUALQUER TIPO DE EXTENSÃO QUE SE PASSE PELO Blockify OU BAIXAR DE FONTES DESCONHECIDAS. No site Oficial tem um formulário para usuários "votarem" para a decisão do que fazer sobre isso e explicando melhor sobre o porquê foi banido, eu sou só um usuário do Reddit Brasileiro que foi pego de surpresa também e decidi escrever para tirar o medo de quem usa sobre esse tal de MALWARE vindo do Blockify. Caso queiram, não posso mandar link aqui, porém é só pesquisar o nome Blockify no google que aparece o site oficial e o aviso lá, Tmj! [link] [comments] |
After Blockify being blocked from the Store I had Claude look up the reason for it by uploading the CRX file. This is what it gave me back:
1. It uploads your entire browsing history. The background script (analytics.js) registers listeners on every tab navigation and, with no opt-in or consent gate, sends the full URL of every http(s) page you visit, plus the referrer, a persistent per-user UUID, your user agent, OS, browser version, and timezone to insights.getblockify.com. The payload is encrypted with a key hardcoded in the extension (ej0hie1MThoo8Ri2), which hides it from you, not from them. stat.init() runs unconditionally at startup. This is the single most damning finding — it's a browsing-history harvester.
2. It can post YouTube comments from your account. opt/yt_autocomment.js (injected into every YouTube page) posts promotional comments like "loving this video ad-free with Blockify!!" via a hidden iframe while you're logged in, up to one per 24 hours. The comment texts are fetched remotely from blockify.b-cdn.net/cc.json, meaning the developer can change what your account posts at any time. The code claims it's opt-in via a promo popup, but the mechanism itself — remotely controlled comments posted silently from your identity — is a spam-bot capability.
3. Remote configuration / kill switches. It regularly fetches switches190.json from a CDN to toggle behaviors remotely, and there's dormant (currently commented-out) code for injecting hidden iframes from browsebetter.io — a domain associated with monetization frames — into pages.
4. Excessive footprint. It requests host permissions for every website (*://*/*), runs content scripts on all sites, and exposes all its resources (web_accessible_resources: "*") to every page and every other extension, which makes you fingerprintable and is a security anti-pattern.
Therefore I had Claude strip these capabilities and give me the hardened version of the add-on:
I stripped (each is now an early return; before the network call, or removed outright — the ad-blocking code paths are untouched):
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analytics.js reportAction no longer POSTs every visited URL + referrer + UUID to insights.getblockify.com/process.cc.json)./metrics beacons — the Spotify, YouTube, and promo-opt-in event pings (each sending your persistent UUID) are disabled.reportErrorToSentry / reportErrorToSentry2 no longer send your UUID + diagnostics to sentry.getblockify.com.update_url so Chrome can't silently pull the original tracking build back over your clean one._metadata/ so the edited files load without a content-verification mismatch.PM me if you want the ZIP file.
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Just booted up my PC and I've been informed that Blockify has been removed from my browser "due to malware, suspicious behaviour, or a policy violation" but when I looked on the Chrome Web Extension, the page is gone. Does anyone have an alternative to Blockify as my usual adblock stops Spotify from working?