# 0x48piraj/fadblock

Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

Repository: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fadblock
Language: CSS
License Family: other
Topics: adblock, adguard, blocker, chrome, extension, firefox, javascript, opera, privacy, youtube
Last push: 2024-10-14T13:28:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 18/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 75
- inputs: {"age_days": 1056, "days_push": 688, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2387, forks 110 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:42.710000+00:00)

## What it is
FadBlock Origin is a browser extension that blocks YouTube ads by detecting ads and fast-forwarding through them in under 100 milliseconds, making it undetectable by YouTube's ad-blocker warnings. It works on Chrome, Opera, and Firefox.

## Use cases
- block youtube ads
- skip youtube ads automatically
- avoid youtube adblock detection popup
- watch youtube without ads on chrome
- youtube server-side ad insertion workaround

## When to choose
- you mainly want an ad-free YouTube experience
- other ad blockers like uBlock get detected by YouTube
- you use Chrome, Firefox, or Opera

## When to avoid
- you need general web-wide ad blocking beyond YouTube
- you want a project with an explicit license
- you prefer traditional request-blocking ad blockers

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: privacy, browser-extension
- domain: privacy, browser-extensions, web-development
- platform: browser-extension, browser
- tags: adblock, youtube, ad-skipping, chrome, firefox, opera, javascript

## Member repositories
- 0x48piraj/fadblock (main) score 18

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.710000+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:34:34.109118+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.710000+00:00, sha e73641db828d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.