Aran Shield

About

Aran Shield is the all-in-one privacy extension that goes beyond ad blocking.

🚫 AD & TRACKER BLOCKING
- 113,000+ blocking rules from EasyList, EasyPrivacy, and curated lists
- Blocks ads from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and 100+ ad networks
- Stops analytics trackers, session replay tools, and marketing scripts
- Crypto mining protection (700+ mining domains)

🖐 ANTI-FINGERPRINTING (Pro)
- Canvas fingerprint randomization
- WebGL GPU vendor/renderer spoofing
- Audio fingerprint noise injection
- Hardware info spoofing (CPU cores, RAM, platform)

💻 HARDWARE LOCKDOWN (Pro)
- Blocks camera/microphone enumeration
- Battery API protection
- Bluetooth, USB, Serial, HID access blocking

🔒 SECURITY
- HTTPS Everywhere — auto-upgrade insecure connections
- Malware & phishing domain blocking
- Notification prompt suppression

🎯 TOOLS (Pro)
- Element Picker — right-click any element to hide it permanently
- Custom block rules & allowlist
- Settings import/export for backup

🌐 SMART FEATURES
- Per-site toggle — disable shields for specific sites
- Web app whitelisting — Gmail, Outlook, Slack work perfectly
- Cookie banner, chat widget, and newsletter popup hiding (Pro)
- URL tracking parameter stripping (utm, fbclid, gclid, etc.)
- Do Not Track & Global Privacy Control signals

⚡ LIGHTWEIGHT
- Zero browsing data collection — everything runs locally
- Efficient MV3 architecture — minimal battery and memory impact
- No account required for free features

FREE TIER: Full 113K+ ad blocking rules, tracker blocking, HTTPS upgrade, URL cleaning, privacy signals, per-site toggle.

PRO ($0.99/mo): Anti-fingerprinting, hardware lockdown, element picker, cookie/popup hiding, custom rules, auto-updating filters, activity log.

Aran Shield is built by Zetavyn Labs LLC. Filter list data from The EasyList authors (easylist.to) under CC BY-SA 3.0.