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The case for an ad blocker that sends nothing about you

An ad blocker sits in the path of everything you browse — so the sharpest question isn't how well it blocks, but what it sends back. Here's what a zero-collection blocker looks like when you can actually check the claim.

Tanmoy Sambhav · Sep 7, 2026

ad blocking

"Why was this blocked?” — the feature every ad blocker should have

Most blockers give you a number — '14 blocked'. Fourteen what, by which rule, from which list? JSK Shield shows the exact request, the rule that matched, and the list it came from, then lets you allow just that one thing on just that one site.

Tanmoy Sambhav · Aug 23, 2026