A Chromium Browser Extension to Counter Warmongering, Genocidal, Misanthropic Actors

Published on Jul 27, 2025 (updated Oct 26, 2025), filed under misc, advocacy. (Share this on Mastodon or Bluesky?)

TL;DR: AWAGAM is a Chromium browser extension that works with user blocklists to block warmongering, genocidal, and misanthropic actors (or other evils).

I built one more Chromium extension, to support my and anyone’s war, genocide, and misanthropy policy: The AWAGAM TLD, domain, and URL blocker (source).

The extension blocks both navigating to and loading from TLDs, domains, and URLs as configured by user blocklists.

The extension is entirely user-configurable by means of JSON-based blocklists. (In fact, it blocks nothing by default.)

You can try the extension using one of my original sample blocklists. wars+genocides.json, for example, handles high-level blocks on major war and genocide state actors as defined by Wikipedia.

The first community blocklists are available. See e.g. pastebin.com/dknCc08y (for the extension, use the “raw” URL), which includes a number of entries related to wars and genocides. While I make no endorsements, this is an example of how you can make AWAGAM work for you.

You can also create and host your own blocklist, which I’m open to reviewing and linking to from the sample blocklists overview.

Blocks can temporarily be lifted, allowing to gracefully handle exceptions.

The documentation has all the details.

If you find an issue, please report it.

A final note, use the AWAGAM blocker responsibly. It’s not meant as a “cancel culture” instrument—that approach requires omniscience and has probably been feeding the Far Right. Instead, it’s a civil, non-violent instrument to counter actors that our and other countries fail to confront and stop. As with nations that start wars, commit genocides, and fuel misanthropy.

Update (October 26, 2025)

Try the EasyList ⟷ AWAGAM converter to use existing EasyList blocklists (as used by Adblock or uBlock Origin) with AWAGAM. Note that as AWAGAM is more than a content blocker and doesn’t support the full EasyList syntax, the results are not the same.

About Me

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a web developer, manager, and author. I’ve been working as a technical lead and engineering manager for companies you’ve never heard of and companies you use every day, I’m an occasional contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.

I love trying things, not only in web development and engineering management, but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my experiences and views. (I value you being critical, interpreting charitably, and giving feedback.)