Ad Video Blocker - How to remove

Ad Video Blocker is a browser add-on that blocks YouTube ads. While it does that, Ad Video Blocker is also ad-supported. As a result, it can open unexpected pages and redirect to potentially unwanted sites. While Ad Video Blocker is not harmful, it’s not the best ad blocker to use.

About Ad Video Blocker:

Classification	Adware, potentially unwanted program.
What’s wrong with Ad Video Blocker	It opens unexpected websites and shows its own ads.
How Ad Video Blocker gets installed	It is advertised online.
How to remove Ad Video Blocker	Uninstall the Ad Video Block extension and other potentially unwanted apps and extensions, find them manually and with anti-malware apps, such as Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.

How Ad Video Blocker works

Ad Video Blocker blocks ads and hijacks searches

Ad Video Blocker is advertised as an ad blocker for Youtube. “Youtube without Ads” is its title. And indeed, it does block ads on the video site. However, it also shows advertisements.

There are many ad blockers on the Chrome Web Store. It’s easy to make one. There is freely available code, filters, and blocklists that anyone can use. These ad blockers might not be as good as the best blockers out there. They usually lack customization and any control options. But they do function.

As it’s so easy for anyone to make your own ad blocker, it’s not surprising that some developers wanted to make a little bit of money by repackaging a functioning ad blocker with a monetization tool (or with ad fraud, in some cases). After all, companies have been making newtab hijackers and search hijackers for years – useless extensions that make money by hijacking users’ searches.

In Ad Video Blocker’s case, its privacy policy says that the extension uses third-party search engines for this. It seems like Ad Video Blocker redirects searches to unexpected sites. This behavior leads to Ad Video Blocker being classified as a potentially unwanted program or a browser hijacker.

Other problems with Ad Video Blocker

This extension has its own website – Advideoblock.com. There, users can install Ad Video Blocker on their browser.

Ad Video Blocker appears to have tens of thousands of users on the Chrome Web Store. If this number is real, then the extension is quite popular.

But I have my doubts. The reviews for Ad Video Blocker look very fake.

• They’re similarly short, don’t discuss the ad blocker’s features, just say “excellent” or “cool”.
• Those reviews that do comment on features get them wrong, calling Ad Video Blocker a “dictionary” or a productivity extension.

I wonder if the creators of Ad Video Blocker got a shady marketing company to take care of the image of their extension.

There are similarities between Ad Video Blocker and a few other extensions: SpeedNet, AdBlocker Max, Quick Speedtest, as well as Music Search for Chrome™ and Movies Search for Chrome™.

How to remove Ad Video Blocker

Ad blockers are great, but it’s important to use reputable ones. And whichever ad blocker you pick, always make sure that you’re installing the official one, as scammers sometimes upload infected clones. The best way to do this is to go on the extension developer’s website to get the link to the extension.

You can uninstall the Ad Video Blocker add-on manually as described in the instructions below. Then, review your browser settings and make sure that your search engine and new tab settings are just how you want them.

That said, Ad Video Blocker doesn’t need to take over the search engine settings to manipulate searches. If you still experience redirects and ads after removing Ad Video Blocker, check your browser for other potentially unwanted extensions.

You can use anti-malware apps (Spyhunter for Mac, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others) to find and remove other adware and malware.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Restore browser settings

TopHow To remove Ad Video Blocker from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ad Video Blocker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Ad Video Blocker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Sudjaskd, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Ad Video Blocker from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Ad Video Blocker related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ad Video Blocker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.