Installing DNDShield on Microsoft Edge takes under a minute, from the official Edge Add-ons store.

Step-by-step

1. Open the DNDShield download page and choose Edge.
2. Click Get, then confirm the permissions in the prompt.
3. Pin DNDShield to your toolbar from the extensions menu.
4. Click the icon and tap the power button — it turns green when protection is on.

What happens next

Ad, tracker, and popup blocking start immediately on every site — no account or setup required.

Coming from uBlock Origin or another Manifest V2 blocker?

Edge began retiring Manifest V2 extensions in August 2026 — consumer devices are expected to finish by the end of the year, managed devices in early 2027 — so if a blocker you were using has been switched off, that's why, and no setting on your side will bring it back. A blocker built for Manifest V3 is what's needed instead.

Two things worth knowing before you switch anything:

• Remove the old one first. Don't leave a disabled or half-working blocker installed alongside a new one. Chromium guarantees each extension 30,000 static blocking rules and draws anything beyond that from a pool shared with every other extension, so two blockers can leave both with less than either would have had alone.
• You don't have to stay on Edge. If keeping the full uBlock Origin matters more to you than the browser does, Firefox and Brave both still support it — Brave hosts Manifest V2 extensions on its own servers. That's a reasonable choice and worth naming.

Background on what changed and when: What is Manifest V3. If your old blocker stopped without explanation, Ad Blocker Not Working covers how to tell this apart from an ordinary fault.

What you get after installing

Blocking starts immediately, with no account and no per-site setup:

• Ads and trackers across the web, from filter rules built on EasyList and EasyPrivacy.
• Pop-ups and pop-unders, including the click-hijacking kind that opens a tab behind the one you're reading — handled by page-level logic rather than filter rules, since that's not something a rule list can catch.
• Video-platform handling for in-player ads on YouTube and other platforms, which filter lists don't address on any browser.
• Per-site control — allowlist any site you'd rather support, or pause protection temporarily without turning anything off permanently.

Edge's own tracking prevention can stay on. It blocks a different, narrower set of things and the two don't conflict.

If something looks wrong

Use Temporary Allow to test, then allowlist the site if it needs to stay off permanently.

FAQ

Does DNDShield also work by installing the Chrome extension on Edge? Edge has its own official DNDShield listing — use that instead of installing the Chrome version manually.

Is it free on Edge? Yes — core ad and tracker blocking is free; paid plans add extended streaming-platform handling and cloud features.

Does it work alongside Edge's own tracking prevention? Yes, they don't conflict — Edge's built-in tracking prevention and DNDShield's blocking both run independently.

Common questions in the first few minutes

A few things worth knowing right after installing on Edge specifically:

• You installed from the Chrome Web Store instead of Edge Add-ons. It'll still work — Edge runs Chrome extensions natively — but the official Edge listing gets updates through Edge's own review process, so it's the more reliable long-term choice.
• A site looks broken after install. Try Temporary Allow before uninstalling — usually one specific rule, not the whole extension.
• Edge's own "Tracking prevention" and DNDShield seem to overlap. They do overlap somewhat, but running both isn't a problem — they don't conflict, and between the two you get broader coverage than either alone.

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