Hide Ads

What it does

Setting hide_ads=true removes common advertising elements — display banners, sticky ad slots, video ad containers, and inline ad units — before the screenshot is taken. It uses a curated block list of CSS selectors targeting the most widely deployed ad networks.

API parameter

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "hide_ads": true
}

Dashboard

Enable the Hide ads checkbox in the main screenshot form.

When to use it

• Visual monitoring of news sites, blogs, or any content-heavy page where ad positions shift between renders.
• Generating clean thumbnails for embedding in reports or presentations.
• SEO or UX audits where ad presence should not influence the baseline.

Combining with hide_popups

Both flags can be enabled together for the cleanest possible output:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "hide_ads": true,
  "hide_popups": true
}