YOM v1.2.0 - Cosmetic filters + anti-anti-adblock

What's new

🛡️ Much stronger adblocker. Three big upgrades to defeat the cases where v1.1.0 still showed ads or got the "please disable your adblocker" popup:

1. Cosmetic filtering (CSS hiding)

Hides ad elements directly in the DOM by selector — even when the ad markup is served first-party from the same domain as the site. Targets [id^="div-gpt-ad"], ins.adsbygoogle, [class*="advert"], [class*="banner-ad"], [class*="sponsored"], ad iframes, and many more.

2. First-party path patterns

URLs containing /ads, /pagead, /adserver, /sponsored, /tracking, /analytics, /beacon, etc. are blocked even on the page's own domain (where domain blocklists can't help).

3. Anti-anti-adblock spoofing

The window now lies to detector scripts:

• window.canRunAds = true, adblockDetected = false, google_ad_status = 1
• adsbygoogle is a Proxy that reports loaded: true
• gtag, ga, _paq, fbq, dataLayer are stubbed so analytics scripts never throw

4. Adblock-warning suppression

DOM nodes whose text matches "please disable your ad-blocker", "ad-blocker detected", "whitelist this site", etc. are removed on sight.

Note on uBlock Origin Lite

Loading the Microsoft Edge Add-ons version of uBO Lite as a real Chromium extension would require WebView2's AreBrowserExtensionsEnabled API — which the cross-platform webview library doesn't expose. The bundled JS adblocker now covers the same defaults (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's list) plus the cosmetic and anti-detector pieces, identically on Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD.

Download

• YOM-windows-x64.zip — extract anywhere and run YOM.exe

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11 (x64)
• Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (preinstalled on Windows 10 21H2+ and Windows 11)

Other platforms

macOS, Linux and BSD users build from source — see the README. CI builds artifacts for those platforms automatically.