Verdict
adblockplus.org appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official product page for Adblock Plus describing downloads for multiple browsers, features (ad blocking, tracking protection, malware blocking), open-source licensing, and allowlisting business model for large partners. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 77 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WR3 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a product and download site for Adblock Plus, presenting a free open-source browser extension that blocks advertising, tracking, and malware across mainstream browsers, alongside related ad-blocking products and ancillary offerings; its apparent business model combines free software distribution under GPLv3 with commercial allowlisting services for larger partners.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent software-product purpose, has an established public footprint, and received clean external reputation results. A behavioral capture did observe hidden forms, but it recorded no external password submission, wallet activity, cloaking, or suspicious inline scripts; this is therefore a contained technical observation rather than evidence of impersonation. The domain is long-established, and the available signals are consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. Abuse reports associated with the observed IP were attributed to shared content-delivery infrastructure, with zero confidence and a whitelisted status, so they do not materially change the site-specific assessment.
- The homepage behavioral capture recorded hidden forms in both runs, with 0 external password forms, 0 wallet-provider detections, 0 wallet-drainer runs, and no cloaking.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2006-06-09T11:04:42Z, with an age of 20.2 years.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections for the evaluated site.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's legal and commercial presentation is consistent with a software utility rather than a financial or investment service. The homepage identifies the extension as free and open source under GPLv3 and presents an allowlisting-based commercial model; GPLv3 is a software license, not evidence of regulatory authorization. No financial-regulatory license number or registration claim is presented in the supplied page content, so regulatory applicability and the legal operator should be confirmed independently before any credential or payment interaction. The available evidence supports an established-site assessment, but it does not independently verify the real-world operator identity.
- The homepage states that Adblock Plus is free and open source under GPLv3 and links visitors to the Terms of Use.
- The supplied page content contains no financial-regulatory license number or registration disclosure.
- The site's transport encryption is provided through a valid DV certificate issued by WR3, with validity shown through 2026-09-30T03:11:21+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential submission or any payment for ancillary services, independently confirm the legal entity named in the site's terms, privacy, and contact materials through a reliable external channel. Confirm that any paid offering has clearly stated pricing, renewal, cancellation, and refund terms, and use payment methods that provide appropriate transaction protection. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed independently rather than relying solely on an address encountered during browsing.
- The homepage provides a Terms of Use link and a Log In entry, making those materials the appropriate starting point for legal-entity and account-use checks.
- The captured homepage contained no sensitive form, so any later credential or payment workflow should be assessed separately at the point of interaction.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture with no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. The website appears established and legitimate for its stated software purpose, while the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Fastly CDN/WAF infrastructure, which is a meaningful mitigating control against direct exposure of the service environment; the observed address was a CDN edge address and no origin candidate was identified. This protection supports infrastructure integrity but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
- Hosted on AS54113 (FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US).
- The observed edge IP was 199.36.158.100 in the US; 1 unique IP and 1 CDN edge IP were recorded, with 0 likely origin IPs.
- TLS certificate issuer: WR3; validation level: DV; valid to 2026-09-30T03:11:21+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing and standard use are proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials or making payments, independent checks of the merchant identity, applicable terms, and payment protections should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 77 reports on hosting IP 199.36.158.100 (Google LLC, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of adblockplus.org.
- The request stayed on adblockplus.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under RegistryGate GmbH. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ultradns.org, across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-09. Noted
- It is hosted on FASTLY, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | RegistryGate GmbH |
|---|---|
| Hosting | FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 199.36.158.100 |
| Name servers | pdns73.ultradns.org, pdns73.ultradns.biz, pdns73.ultradns.com, pdns73.ultradns.info, pdns73.ultradns.net, pdns73.ultradns.co.uk |
| SSL issuer | WR3 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-30 |
| Domain age | 20.20 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-09 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 77 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about adblockplus.org at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.