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Show HN: I made a tool that prevents websites from tracking you

Cleaner pages. Fewer trackers. Local-only.

GetBlocked! is a lightweight, local-only Chrome extension that helps reduce common third-party website tracking by blocking known tracker requests, cleaning tracking links, and explaining tracking attempts.

It is built as a small, inspectable Manifest V3 project for people who want a friendly privacy tool and for contributors who want quick, useful pull requests.

GetBlocked! blocks a curated starter list of known third-party tracker domains and tracking URL parameters.

The tracker list is intentionally conservative. Rules are limited to third-party requests to reduce website breakage.

GetBlocked! does not send browsing data to any server. The extension uses: