Business
Retail sales rise for a third month as prices ease
For Google Chrome
CleanView decides what you see. Not an advertiser, and not us.
Blocks ads, trackers and phishing sites. Hide anything else by keyword or topic. Nothing about your browsing ever leaves your device.
No accountNo serversNo data collectionWorks in every language
One click, one popup, everything in reach
528,974phishing, scam and malware sites it stops before they load
224,799trackers disguised as the site you are on, blocked by name
11,222kinds of thing its picture model can recognise — on your computer
0network requests made by CleanView. Ever. It has nothing to send and no one to send it to
Counted on the build date and re-counted on every release.
What it does
Everything an ad blocker does. Then the part nobody else does.
Six protections, each with its own switch. Turn on what you want, leave the rest.
Ads and trackers, gone
Advertising and tracking requests are blocked before they are made, by Chrome’s own filtering engine. Pages load faster and use less data because the requests never happen.
Trackers that hide, blocked too
Some trackers disguise themselves as part of the site you are on, so ordinary blocklists miss them. CleanView knows 224,799 of them by name.
A warning before a dangerous site
A list of 528,974 known phishing, scam and malware sites, checked on your computer. If it ever gets one wrong, continue anyway with one click.
Stop sites following you
Hides which site you came from, sends the legally recognised Global Privacy Control opt-out, and blocks the invisible beacons that report your clicks after you have left.
Hide anything you like
Type a word and CleanView hides headlines, pictures and video thumbnails that mention it — on every site. Or switch on a whole topic.
Reads the sentence, looks at the picture
A model inside the extension reads whole sentences, so “United under attack” stays a football story. Another looks at pictures nothing describes. Both run on your computer.
Keywords & topics
Hide what you would rather not see. Anywhere.
News about an illness you are living with. An election you are tired of. Spoilers. A person you would rather not read about. Gambling or alcohol you are keeping away from. Type the word, and it is gone from every page — with a small marker where it was, in case you change your mind.
- Any word, every site. Headlines, captions, pictures and video thumbnails — not only the text.
- Six topics, one switch each: NSFW, violence, politics, gambling, drugs, alcohol.
- Words with two meanings get a question, so “apple” can mean the company without hiding the fruit.
- Search included. Search for one of your words and CleanView meets you with its own screen instead of the results — one click shows them anyway.
Science
A new telescope catches its first light over Chile
Sport
United under attack as the visitors take control
Hidden by CleanViewReason: Keyword — “election”
SHOWNSFWViolencePoliticsGamblingDrugsAlcohol
“apple” has more than one meaning. Which are you referring to?
the companythe fruitEvery meaning
How it works
Three steps. The first one is the last thing you have to install.
STEP 1
Add to Chrome
One click in the Chrome Web Store. No account, no sign-in, no download afterwards — every list and every model ships inside the extension.
STEP 2
Choose what to hide
Ads and trackers are blocked from the start. Add a word, switch on a topic, or point at anything on a page and hide it for good.
STEP 3
Browse
Pages arrive cleaner, faster and lighter. Everything CleanView did on a page is one click away in the popup, with a count.
Privacy
Nothing leaves your device. Not the pages you read, not the words you block.
There is nothing to opt out of, because nothing is collected.
No account
Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to.
No servers
CleanView makes no network requests at all. A test fails the build if one appears.
No data collection
No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reports, no third-party code.
Lists built in
Filter and threat lists ship inside the extension and update when it updates.
Read this before you install: it looks at the screen, and this is all it looks at it for.
Some pictures come with no caption, no description and a filename that is just a number. To judge those, CleanView takes a screenshot of the tab you are looking at, crops out the pictures nothing describes, and decides on your computer whether they show something you asked to hide. The screenshot is thrown away as soon as it has been judged. No file is kept, nothing is sent anywhere, and no one — not us, not anyone — ever sees it. With no keyword and no topic switched on, no screenshot is ever taken, and you can turn picture reading off at any time.
Compare
Why CleanView?
An ad blocker removes what advertisers put on a page. CleanView also removes what you would rather not see.
| CleanView | A typical ad blocker | |
|---|---|---|
| Blocks ads and trackers | ||
| Warns before phishing and malware sites | Some | |
| Blocks trackers disguised as the site | Some | |
| Hides anything by keyword, on every site | — | |
| Hides whole topics with one switch | — | |
| Reads sentences and pictures, on your device | — | |
| Makes no network requests at all | Varies |
“A typical ad blocker” means the common browser extensions; “Some” means the feature exists in some of them, usually as an option or through a separate service.
Questions
Asked before installing
Is CleanView free?
The Chrome extension is free, with no account and no trial clock. If that ever changes, it will say so here first.
Does it slow Chrome down?
The opposite. Blocked requests are never made, so pages arrive with less to load. On an ad-heavy test page CleanView cut requests and data by three quarters and load time by more than half.
Does it read my screen?
Only to judge pictures that a site describes with nothing at all, and only when you have a keyword or a topic switched on. The screenshot is judged on your computer and thrown away at once — nothing is kept and nothing is sent. You can turn picture reading off on the setup page.
Does it work on sites in other languages?
Yes. Keywords work on accented and non-Latin writing, so it is not English-only.
Which browsers?
Google Chrome. It uses Chrome’s own filtering engine and, if your computer can run it, Chrome’s built-in language model — which Chrome downloads from Google only when you press the button asking for it.
What does it not do?
It is a browser extension, so it protects Chrome and nothing else on your computer. An app for the whole computer is in the works.