I can easily whitelist those sites, but it’s going to be very time-consuming because I don’t know which sites are like CNN and which are not. Looks familiar? Obviously, the CNN website can detect that I’m using an ad blocker. For example, I wanted to visit CNN but ran into this warning instead. However, installing AdBlock prevents you from accessing websites whose revenue are driven by display ads. As the name suggests, its main function is to block unwanted and annoying advertisements from being displayed when you surf the Internet. We also reviewed this extension in our best ad blocker roundup. AdBlock is a popular content filtering extension for major web browsers like Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge.