browser extension
Ackless
A small, open-source WebExtension for Australian browsing. Ackless hides repeating acknowledgement banners, modals, and footers that show up across many .au sites—so you can focus on the page you opened. It can also apply a short, auditable list of optional place-name display preferences you control.
what it does
- Runs on Australian pages (including .au, en-AU, and sites you deliberately enable).
- Detects common acknowledgement phrasing and hides the nearest matching block in the page, including content that loads late after the first paint.
- Keeps simple counters on-device for how many blocks were hidden on the current page and in total.
- Works with the permissions it needs—storage for your settings and counts, and active tab so you can enable the current site from the popup.
what it does not do
- No analytics, no remote ruleset, and no background “phone home” for browsing data.
- No cloud sync of counts or settings: everything Ackless stores stays in your browser’s extension storage.
- Matching is intentionally conservative; expect occasional false positives and negatives while the ruleset evolves.
source
Ackless is open source. Clone it, inspect it, or grab release builds from github.com/obambulo-studio/ackless .
privacy
Ackless is built to be boring about data: it does not collect or transmit URLs or page content for processing elsewhere. For full detail, read the Ackless privacy policy.