You're set. Welcome to AdBlock-Maxxer.

One blocker for YouTube · Spotify · Twitch · the whole web — across Brave, Chrome, Edge & Firefox.

It's already running. YouTube ads are stripped before the player loads, Twitch stays full quality through ad breaks, and 21,000+ filter rules are killing trackers everywhere else. Nothing else to set up for normal ads — but here's what you just unlocked.

What it's doing right now

▶ YouTube, no freeze

Ad slots are deleted from the player response before it loads — no skip-race, no "stuck, hit refresh."

🟣 Twitch at 1080p

Swaps in a clean backup stream during ad breaks instead of dropping you to 480p like every other blocker.

🎧 Spotify web

Detects ads, mutes & fast-forwards, restores your audio. (On iPhone, see the DNS guide in the popup.)

🛡 Whole-web blocking

EasyList + EasyPrivacy network rules, a cosmetic ad-box hider, and cookie-banner auto-reject.

When YouTube blocks the video itself

🛡 YouTube Companion: makes enforced YouTube play ad-free

If YouTube shows a black screen or an "allow ads" wall, the browser extension cannot beat that server-side block by itself. The optional Windows companion is the piece that fetches the video ad-free and lets Reclaim play it in the normal YouTube page.

Download the ZIP, extract it, and run install-companion.bat. It starts invisibly, can auto-start with Windows, and stays local to your PC.

Download YouTube Companion (.zip)

Keyboard shortcuts

Alt + Shift + A Toggle the floating quick-actions panel (toolbar popups can't be dragged — this can).

Alt + Shift + Z Zap mode — click any element on a page to hide it for good on that site.

Alt + Shift + S Snooze blocking on this device for 5 minutes, then it auto-resumes.

Make it easy to reach

Click the 🧩 puzzle-piece in your toolbar and pin AdBlock-Maxxer so the live counter and controls are one click away.

This is a developer / unpacked install — that's how it dodges the Web-Store ban that gutted uBlock. The trade-off: it won't silently auto-update itself. When the Twitch fix or filter lists need a refresh, the popup tells you, and one command rebuilds it. Everything else updates on a weekly schedule on its own.

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