Block Ads on Google Search
Hedgehog is the only browser that reliably strips sponsored results from the Google search results page itself. Top of the page is the result you actually wanted — not four paid links to whoever bid most for your click.
Even uBlock can’t reliably do this
Most ad-blockers strip ads from third-party sites. Google search ads are different: Google serves them inline with the organic results, on its own domain, via the same JavaScript that renders the real results. There’s no third-party ad-network domain to block. The ads share their CSS classes with the organic results, refreshed and renamed every few weeks specifically to evade extensions.
Even uBlock Origin’s Google-specific filter list is in a constant arms race. Most other ad blockers give up entirely on Google search and just block third-party sites elsewhere. The result: you get an ad-free experience everywhere on the web except the page you actually start every browsing session from.
Strip at the network, before the page renders
Hedgehog’s built-in MITM proxy intercepts the Google search results page before it reaches your browser’s renderer. The HTML and JSON responses pass through Hedgehog’s filter, where the sponsored-result markers are identified and removed at the source. By the time the page reaches the renderer, the ads aren’t there to render.
From Google’s perspective: it served the page. From your browser’s perspective: it received a page with no ads. Google’s anti-ad-block JavaScript runs on the page that arrives at the browser — and that page has no ads to defend. The arms race that breaks uBlock weekly doesn’t touch Hedgehog, because the filter sits one layer below the page.
Same architecture as our YouTube/TikTok block-list and our adult-content filter. Same reason it works where other ad-blockers fail.
Just the actual results
- No “Sponsored” results at the top of the page
- No Shopping carousel of paid product placements
- No mid-results paid placements masquerading as organic
- No “ad blocker detected” nag from Google — they can’t see one
- The result you actually wanted is at position #1, not buried below four ads
- Works on Google Image search and Google News too — same filter, same architecture
The most-loaded page on the web
Google search is the front door to the internet. For most people it’s the most-visited page, the highest-impression environment, and increasingly the most ad-saturated — multiple studies in 2024–2025 found 60%+ of mobile search results were “above the fold” before any organic result appeared.
Stripping ads from the page you start every browsing session on is the highest-leverage single change you can make to your daily web experience. Faster decisions, fewer accidental ad clicks, less “wait, was that the actual thing or the ad?” second-guessing.