Kick splices ad breaks straight into the live video, runs video ads in its player, and loads trackers on every page. This extension stops all three, so the stream just keeps playing.
Demo. Switch the blocker off to see what Kick's player would show during an ad break.
Kick doesn't rely on one ad system, so the extension doesn't either. Each kind gets its own fix.
The ads stitched into the live video itself, including the breaks streamers trigger mid-stream. Normal ad blockers can't touch these because they arrive as part of the stream.
Delivered by AWS MediaTailor, switched on by the stream's playback token
The ads Kick's own player loads from Google. With the ad SDK blocked, Kick's player goes straight back to the stream.
Delivered by Google IMA SDK, PAL and VAST ad tags
Display ad slots, the ad-bidding scripts behind them, and tracking pixels from TikTok, Meta, Quora and Google. Tracker blocking can be turned off on its own.
Delivered by Google Publisher Tag, Prebid partners, Open Measurement
Before a stream starts, Kick's player asks Kick for a stream link. The link carries a signed token, and that token tells Amazon whether to splice ads into the video. Kick also hands out a second link for the same channel with ad insertion switched off. The extension gives the player that one.
{
"aws:channel-arn": "arn:aws:ivs:…:channel/0PMYoN0I2p4i",
"aws:ads-playback-config-name": "mediatailor-ssai-…",
"aws:ads-reporting-mode": "CLIENT",
"aws:ads-player-params": { … ad targeting … }
}{
"aws:channel-arn": "arn:aws:ivs:…:channel/0PMYoN0I2p4i",
"aws:ads-opt-out": true
}The swap only happens when both tokens name the same channel. If anything doesn't match, the stream is left alone and the popup says it isn't protected.
No account, no analytics, no servers of ours. The extension only talks to Kick, and your two settings stay in your browser.
An automated test opens live channels in Chrome and Firefox, then confirms the video plays, no ad request gets through, and no stream token has ad insertion on.
These are the exact files inside the download, as they ship. Pick one to read it. Nothing is hidden or minified.
It isn't in the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons yet, so you load it from the download. The same file works in every browser below.
Install it from your browser's add-on store in one click, or load it by hand from the download.
Needs version 121 or later of any Chromium browser.
Add to ChromeFree on the Chrome Web Store, and it updates itself. Edge, Brave and Opera can install it from there too.
Or install it by hand:
Download the zip nokickads-1.0.0.zip · 12 KBchrome://extensions
Needs Firefox 140 or later on desktop.
Add to FirefoxSigned by Mozilla, so Firefox keeps it installed.
Or install it by hand:
Download the zip nokickads-1.0.0.zip · 12 KBabout:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
manifest.json inside the unzipped folder.Firefox only keeps add-ons that Mozilla has signed, so it removes this one when it restarts. Until it's signed, repeat step 3 after each restart.
Only kick.com. Your browser will say it can "read and change your data on kick.com", which it needs to fix the stream link. It also uses the browser's built-in request blocking, which works without seeing your browsing, plus storage for your two settings. Its blocking rules only apply to pages on Kick, so other sites aren't affected. The privacy policy has the details.
It could, any time Kick changes how its player works. If the stream fix stops working, the popup shows Not protected instead of Ad-free and the stream plays as normal, ads included. Nothing breaks on the page itself.
Not yet. It handles live streams, Kick's video ads and the display ads and trackers across the site.
Firefox doesn't let extensions read which of their blocking rules matched, so the count is only available in Chrome and other Chromium browsers. The blocking itself works the same in both.
Ads are part of how streamers on Kick get paid. If there's a channel you want to support, switch the blocker off from the toolbar while you watch, or subscribe to the channel directly.