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A full ad and tracker blocker built directly into the browser. No extension to install, no service to sign up for. Open a browser, load a page, and the ads, popups, and trackers are already gone.
Every request a page tries to make is checked against a large library of community-maintained block rules. Anything matching a known ad network, tracker, fingerprinting script, malware host, or popup nag never makes it onto the page:
You feel the side effects right away: pages load faster, scrolling is smoother, and your battery and bandwidth go further.
The blocker is built on the same open-source engine that powers the Brave browser, used by roughly 70 million people and tested against millions of real websites every day. It speaks every major filter-list standard: if a list works in uBlock Origin or AdGuard, it works here. Nothing proprietary, nothing locked in.
A filter list is a community-maintained file of patterns to block and elements to hide. Out of the box, MetaDock enables a curated default set:
Manage the whole set in Settings. Each list has a toggle, a last-updated time, and a rule count. You can:
Sometimes you want the blocker off: to support a creator, or because a payment flow is misbehaving. Each browser panel has an ad-block override with three states:
The quickest way in is the shield button in the browser toolbar, next to the extensions button. It opens a small panel where you can switch the override, toggle Disable on this site for the current page, and see how many requests were blocked. The override travels with that browser and is remembered in the workspace.