Saturday, August 8, 2026

Built a Chrome/Edge extension to skip ads and block trackers automatically — open sourced it

I've been annoyed by ads interrupting videos and tracking scripts everywhere, so I built StreamBoost — a browser extension that auto-skips video ads, blocks trackers, and adds video shortcuts (Picture-in-Picture, playback speed control, etc).

It's written in vanilla JavaScript using the WebExtensions API, MV3 compatible. Blocks 20+ known ad/tracker domains and handles popup/popunder blocking too.

Fully open source under GPL-3.0 — repo has the full source, README with setup instructions, and it's open for contributions if anyone wants to extend the blocklist or add features.

Repo: https://github.com/abushama1-ar/streamboost-extension

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or hear feedback on the approach.

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