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Recommended
Tools
These are tools we use ourselves and trust. Each one fills a gap that Chroma doesn't — together they cover the full spectrum of a cleaner, more private web.
Privacy Badger
by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
While Chroma focuses on ads, Privacy Badger targets invisible trackers — the scripts that follow you from site to site building a profile on your behaviour. It fills a gap Chroma doesn't cover.
- Developed by the EFF — a non-profit defending digital rights
- Heuristic learning — adapts to new trackers without relying on static lists
- Complements Chroma — tracker blocking, not ad blocking
- Free and open source
SponsorBlock
by Ajay Ramachandran
Chroma handles pre-roll and mid-roll ads on YouTube. SponsorBlock handles what comes after — the sponsored segments, product promotions, and self-plugs baked directly into the video itself.
- Community-powered database of sponsor segment timestamps
- Skips in-video promotions Chroma cannot detect
- YouTube-specific — a natural companion to Chroma on the platform
- Free and open source
Chroma is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Ajay Ramachandran. These tools are recommended solely on their own merit.