Adboost
A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
Details
- External ID
- 46855640
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Adboost
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 128
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9123989218328841
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Retail & commerce
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser extension that adds ads to webpages
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a humorous browser extension with a simple content script that injects mock advertisement elements into the DOM of loaded web pages.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Ad blockers, Traditional ad blockers vs click-injecting approach
Concerns raised: Legal risk of click fraud liability despite EFF backing, Financial harm to small website owners and publishers, Whether clicking with fraudulent intent constitutes illegal activity, Ad network legal enforcement against users vs plugin makers, Quality degradation of ad platforms from artificial clicks
Feature requests: Direct revenue sharing with website owners where ads appear, Option to block specific ad networks entirely
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 439 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #45 of 440 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 94 days after the earliest competitor.
- Underweb · github · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Antler · hn · 2025-11-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- An interactive guide to how browsers work · hn · 2026-01-04 · 302 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Muchita · hn · 2026-08-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Signet.js · hn · 2026-03-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Ghostty-Web · hn · 2025-11-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- DBlocker · github · 2026-09-16 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Generative UIs for the Web (Experimental) · hn · 2026-01-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.