Advanced Profanity Filter

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Advanced Profanity Filter helps to clean up bad language on the websites you and your family visit.

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Advanced Profanity Filter helps to clean up bad language on the websites you and your family visit.
Whether you choose to censor, substitute, or hide offensive words, APF is here to improve your browsing experience. Individuals around the world can now be protected from profanity in their homes, organizations, and schools. APF has a variety of options to meet your personal needs.

APF is not limited to filtering text alone! With the use of captions and subtitles it can also mute audio while you sit back and relax to watch your favorite movies and shows from a collection of supported sites. Have a suggestion for a new supported site? Contact us!

For a detailed overview of the features and settings, please see the Getting Started page here:

https://github.com/FrostCo/AdvancedProfanityFilter/wiki

Thank you for supporting the ongoing development of this project.

Latest reviews

Misshappycatholic 2025-10-13: I use this filter all of the time and it has made it possible for me and my kids to enjoy so many movies and videos I otherwise wouldn't watch because of the bad language! Thank you soooo much for this brilliant extension!!
Dung 2025-10-09: Great extension, make internet much more tolerable. one thing though, is it possible for filter plural of a word by default? having to add both the singular and plural form of words I want to filter out is tedious.
Saden 2025-10-03: Whoever created this, I want to give you a tight hug. I myself use profanity and vulgar terms, but something inside me feels anxious - and DESPISES vulgar words. Recently, I've been trying to get rid of it - and it's working. But, I'm still missing soomething??? And this was all I needed, thank you, so very much! The extension can use better updates, however this is very perfect! Thank you, 5/5! :-) Edit: I'm gonna CRY! There's audio filtering, holy heavens. Thank you, dude!
Chobikil 2025-10-01: Thank you for making this. As a Muslim, it's a pain in the butt to constantly hear swear words thrown around especially with now normalized it's become to use. This extension makes my life easier in that regard, thanks!
Random Person 2025-09-03: I have PTSD and this is so great to avoid triggering, also good for filtering swearing etc. in general
Joseph Carter 2025-09-02: pretty cool because the YouTube comments are super bad sometimes
GANEV Productions TV 2025-08-10: The audio muting works perfectly and the audio choices are great! (static one tickled my ears lol)
Ben Callegari 2025-08-05: I'd just like to take a bit of time to express how grateful I am for this extension. Because the internet is the way it is, with it being really easy to find all kinds of completely unfiltered content, and because I'm the way I am, which is to say I have a form of Autism called PDD-NOS (short for Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Satisfied) and have had a strong aversion to profanity for over half my life now, I've always felt a strong sense of anxiety when using it, despite the fact that, ironically, I'm also so dependent on it for certain things. After all, it's so easy to put in a search on Google and many other similar search engines that you'd think is completely innocuous only to suddenly be staring at very nasty and negative sentiments, or simply foul language used in an excessive or very unnecessary manner from search results you don't even want (I'm looking at you Reddit). Therefore, it's been nothing short of a huge relief to finally have a reliable source of protection when navigating the unpredictable landscape of the internet that censors, substitutes or removes those often negative, toxic and overused sentiments at any given time depending on your personal preference. While I know this certainly doesn't apply to everyone who uses the internet, it's always really bothered me how a number of people publicly post foul language without stopping to consider how it may negatively affect other people, and in my case, it very much has caused very negative mood swings, depression and an exaggerated, overly cynical mindset towards the world at large over many years. But again, now I can finally protect myself, as well as have a constant reminder with me that I'm not alone in the world, that other people share my personal values about being mindful of one's conduct even when it's so easy not to be when you're behind a computer screen, especially in cases when you have anonymity on your side.... or, at the very least, prefer not to see so much foul language on the internet. After all, if I were the only one, this wouldn't exist to help people, would it? Now, to be clear, this extension may not be 100% flawless or infallible. For example, it will pick up the spelling of certain words that are completely okay just because they have the same spelling as profane words in them. This keeps happening with Japanese names that happen to include the spelling of the s-word for excrement in them, even though the pronunciation of said names or words is often different than the profanity and it's only complete coincidence they're spelled that way with no relation to the profane word. It also obviously can't distinguish between different contexts when it comes to words that aren't always profane or inappropriate; for example, if H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is being used in the proper context to refer to the place referenced in Catholicism, it will censor, substitute or remove it the same way it were if it were used non-literally and/or as an exclamation, in which cases it can be considered offensive, albeit still a more mild swear. But that's to be expected. Finally, if you're using the audio feature where you're watching a video that has close captioning or any type of subtitles available, and it mutes the audio if any profanities come up, the timing isn't always exactly right. However, the fact that it even HAS a feature like that at all is quite impressive, and again, makes it easier to watch certain movies and shows I otherwise like, but have some of that saltier language which can potentially ruin, or at least diminish the experience. All in all, this extension has made my internet browsing experiences much more positive. It may not cover every single word I I have an aversion to and/or causes me psychological distress, but it does cover most of them, allowing me to finally protect myself from them and make me feel like I'm not alone. So thank you very much!
Kenz - 2025-07-25: Nothing or no one can get me to leave a review unless I choose to do so. With that being said, I literally cannot function without this extension. 11/10! it works well & not just for profanity [I have filtered out everything that's political and racist...on all sides of the spectrum.] Honestly, thank you for this app & its service! P.S. for those leaving 1 star reviews - at least MESSAGE the creator before leaving a bad review. Surely your 'problem' is fixable. Jeez. & no, this review isn't sponsored or fake in anyway.
Jean Tolman 2025-06-26: I can tell you this - that it doesn't filter the "f" word when I watch a film on acorn.tv on my PC. (And I have tried all I can to make sure that I have the settings right so it should filter it.)
Mary 2025-06-24: Just beware that whatever words are removed in the profanity filter will be removed from every webpage you go to. I added God and Christ to my filter list to be removed because I don't like to hear their names used casually. I find they were removed from everything I was reading. At Christmas time the word Christmas would be missing. There might be two commas together and I could tell something had been removed or didn't make sense. I was turning the filter off (I have the chrome extension on top) for those pages, but it was too hard to keep up with. So now I remove the filter altogether and only when I'm about to watch something I think might have profanity do I enable it again.
RotIn Peace 2025-06-02: I use this add-on to clean lyrics in Genius, it's perfect at what it's doing.
Inas 2025-05-06: Not perfect but the best one I could find for YouTube. Using autogenerated captions means it only picks up on the swear halfway through them saying it, which in my opinion defeats the purpose. Captions the creator made themselves: for some reason the whole sentence gets muted, so a couple words before and after, which is distracting and annoying, as I have to look at the captions to understand what is being said
MARCO SESRO 2025-02-19: A really good estention especially if you use discord on the browser
Jack 2025-02-16: It's very great extension!
Charis V 2025-02-02: Works well!
3DVoid Gaming 2024-12-03: Amazing, works so good and well it just works!
Ana Hernandez 2024-11-22: Thank you for the recent update , i wasn't muting on disney plus , but now it does now ,it even works on hulu . thank you Richard.
flippa swelloza 2024-11-21: I cant get substitutions to use uppercases correctly in the bulk editor. for example, when i try to replace a word for "OGs" it comes out as "Ogs". The way i found around this is to edit them one by one through "Words & Phrases". Just a little inconvenience, but otherwise its a great extension. Enjoying it for the past couple years, thank you (:
Scott Campbell 2024-11-05: Awesome extension AND support from the creator. Thanks!
Jason Newton 2024-10-31: So I was wondering what I am doing wrong? The YouTube video I played had 3 words of profanity and it didn't catch even one of them. Thanks for any help.
Theoline Jordaan 2024-10-19: Thank you so much, it filters offensive words really well. Can you please assist us in filtering phrases? We have added phrases to the words/phrases list, yet it is not being filtered. We are using the Chrome extension.
Zach 2024-10-15: I'm a kid so this is awesome!
Shanita Derrick 2024-10-06: This has been a really great tool for my family and I! I really appreciate you guys for putting it together! However, could you better explain how to add custom sites? In particular, I was trying to add, "www.angel.com" on the list but couldn't figure it out. Could you guys help me with this? Thanks, God Bless!
Natalie Norwood 2024-09-30: It works on the captions, but I've been changing the settings for about an hour trying to figure out how to make it actually remove the audio, and nothing works.
Lycole 2024-09-28: Hoooray!!!!!!!!! This helps me so much in browsing I can't surf the web without it
Minecraft heaven TGS 2024-09-07: Really effective way to block words but some clear swear words aren't censored such as ret**ded + the option to add words to block doesn't work for me. It will also be cool if there's a way to block images with certain words
Blissful690 2024-08-31: Does not "bleep" swearing, which I'd rather prefer over muting. If anyone can link me to the extension that bleeps swearing, I would be grateful.
Mark Amakasu 2024-08-17: Absolutely the best extension I have ever downloaded! For kids and for adults!!!! I can't THANK YOU enough fo rdeveloping this!!!!
mike north 2024-07-22: I really like it. It has slick features that make it customizable. It's easy to set up, straightforward, and works really well, and on a lot of various websites, including "X" and YT comment section. I kept noticing how many people were suddenly using "fog" and "fogging" and at first didn't realize those were my replacements. I turned off the feature that put brackets around replaced words, and now I don't even think about was there, or notice it had been edited. I haven't noticed any browser lag since installing.
Angela Gillespie 2024-07-21: Advanced Profanity filter works perfectly, accept with Prime Video. Please add Prime Video to your list. And thank you for the good work.
Jacob Kelly 2024-07-21: Works how it is supposed to, even has a way to make customized filters.
Nerd Nerdo 2024-07-16: this is perfect i can now finally go live on youtube without having to see the hard r and other bad words you're a life saver
Mark Klink 2024-07-15: Thank you so much. This has really given me so much ore viewing options. I really appreciate this extension.
Jordan Ellsworth 2024-07-02: Best Chrome Extension Ever! Period. Works flawlessly. So well, in fact, that I forget it's there. My internet world is now censored in terms of language. If only we could create something like this for visual elements...🤔
TOomuch1 2024-07-02: It works like a charm, but I discovered this extension has a little conflict with 'uBlock Origin' If you let these two extensions be enabled at the same time, you won't be able to open multiple tabs on YouTube, and the page will load forever until you disable one of them. I'm hoping the next update will fix this issue.
Austin Higgs 2024-06-11: Have been using this for years. Highly recommend it if there are certain things you do not want to hear. Works perfectly fine on Netflix and Prime, where we use it the most.
A. B. 2024-06-01: This works surprisingly well. I am using this right now with Amazon prime, and as long as a show has subtitles on it catches all the profanities. If you add any words of your own to censor to it, you have to reload the video though for it to work. Overall great extension, super helpful.
Dino Melon 2024-05-08: Ok so I would've loved for this to work however I think youtube wont let you see bad word captions anymore so it messed it up but if it would've it would have been great!
Steven Buechele 2024-05-05: I haven't tried it for very long, and it's looking good for the text, but I'm watching a video with a guy speaking with a british accent and it's not filtering anything there. I assume that's more of a problem on the youtube side than here, seeing that it creates the captions. If there are any extensions to improve captions on youtube that would be a great benefit to know about.
C Rosenfeld 2024-04-21: I used work for me but for some reason its not wokring at all anymore, i have no idea why.
Jacko Nieuwenhuize 2024-02-22: We really love this extension, because it gives us more posibilities without all the bad language. It is especially nice that you can edit your own filter so it gives the possibility for all languages in the world. The support from Richard is very good, we needed a custom language/audio filter and he helped us really well. We really love it. Thank you
Jacko Nieuwenhuize 2024-02-22: We really love this extension, because it gives us more posibilities without all the bad language. It is especially nice that you can edit your own filter so it gives the possibility for all languages in the world. The support from Richard is very good, we needed a custom language/audio filter and he helped us really well. We really love it. Thank you
Mustafa 2024-01-30: Really useful, thanks! It just sometimes doesn't detect some words on a video but it's still awesome.
Juliana Maria / Yumi Freya Russom (July-Chan) 2024-01-23: YAY
Burak Dilşen 2024-01-13: Would be perfect if Turkish characters can be supported. ğüşıöç ĞÜŞİÇ I tried a lot of regex and also exact and partial options, but cannot make the extension to filter certain words. Good work, though.
Neels Coetzer 2024-01-10: Was so impressed. Used this incredible extension for more than 2y BUT suddenly I cannot get the extension to toggle ON/OFF or change the settings from inside a tab on both Brave and Chrome. So sad. I really started to depend on this amazing tool.
Luna Eur 2024-01-07: Finally the well made, easy to use and perfectly working general word filter add-on of my dreams!
John 2024-01-06: Big fan, Thank You Very Much!
Isaiah Farb 2024-01-02: 5/22/2022 review was made obsolete because the bug is no longer there. 5/29/2023 edit: Once again, fantastic! It would be GREAT if I could choose APF to be off by default, and then only be on for sites of my choosing. That would be better than running into another important questionnaire, slightly affected by APF, that I can't page-refresh without consequences. 1/2/2024 edit: Still fantastic. I wish it was on Firefox.

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