How to pause an ad blocker on one site only
A site breaks, and your only options are leaving the blocker on or turning it off everywhere.
Blocking, Paused here, or Off, per site, from the popup. Paused stops blocking requests but keeps the elements you hid hidden. Off does nothing at all on that site.
Why the usual fixes do not stick
Most blockers give you a global on/off switch and a whitelist that is a separate screen, so "just this site, just for now" turns into a setting you forget to put back. The distinction that actually matters is between pausing network blocking and turning off the elements you chose to hide, and almost nothing separates the two. BowerBird makes it one control with three states, stored per site, and says in plain words what each one does.
How to do it with BowerBird
- Click the BowerBird icon.
- Choose Blocking, Paused here, or Off.
- The choice is remembered for that site only.
Worth knowing: Paused sites are remembered up to 2,000 of them, which is as many as Chrome lets an extension store.
Without granting access to every site you visit
BowerBird installs without asking to read or change your data on any website. Its ad and tracker blocking runs on rules the browser applies itself, which needs no site access at all. When you hide your first element on a site, it asks for that one site, from your click, and you can revoke it later in settings.
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