Amazon adBlocker

Stanton McCandlish

2020-10-06

Update (2020-11): This is no longer working very much. Most "Sponsored" listings now get through this filter, though I'm not seeing sidebar ads. I've switched to this one, which has been more effective so far, and also works on eBay: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ebay-amazon-adblocker-no/bpannmnkbjlkpkpbfdnebddnahhcankh

Original review (early 2020): It DOES work, mostly. Whatever issues were happening last year, the extension is definitely blocking most ads at www.amazon.com (I don't know about .uk, .de, etc.) as of 2020-01. You'll still see "Amazon's Choice" and "Best Seller" flags, but these are actually useful. Same goes for some special, topical, third-party reviews through the Online Associates Program (e.g. Gear Hungry Editorial Recommendations, in the Electronics section sometimes). Arguably also useful. Regardless, the extension definitely nuked all the "Sponsored" spam in the search results, which were why I wanted such an ad blocker. (The front Amazon page is unaffected; the entire point of it is showing you a bunch of stuff, and anyone sensible doesn't spend more than a few seconds there, just long enough to input a search.)

However, there is one serious flaw: The extension is NOT working at Smile.Amazon.com, so you cannot use this extension and Smile-related one (like Amazon Smile Redirect or Smile Always) at the same time, nor use Amazon Adblocker when at Smile by going there manually. That's a pretty serious problem, but probably not all that hard to fix.

Grzegorz Gawlowski

2020-04-04

Doesn't work at all.