It blocks ads, tracking scripts, social share buttons, pop-ups, and other annoyances from websites you visit. These things all waste mobile data, compromise privacy, and slow down web browsing.
AdAway Alternatives
AdAway is described as 'An ad blocker that uses the hosts file. The hosts file contains a list of mappings between hostnames and IP addresses. When an app requests an ad, that request is directed to 127.0.0.1 which does nothing' and is a very popular Ad Blocker in the web browsers category. There are more than 50 alternatives to AdAway for a variety of platforms, including Mac, iPhone, iPad, Google Chrome and Windows apps. The best AdAway alternative is uBlock Origin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AdAway are Adblock Plus, AdGuard, NextDNS and Pi-hole.
Alternatives list
Magic Lasso Adblock is a free, efficient and high performance ad blocker for the iPhone, iPad and Mac with native Safari integration.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Safari
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Pop Block Pro is a Chrome browser extension that is available from the Google Chrome Webstore. The extension provides blocking for popups and popunders opened by javascript and other methods that are missed by the Google Chrome popup blocker.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Google Chrome
Safari AdBlocker is the only 64-bit ad blocker built for Mac OS X 10.5+ to integrate directly into Safari, for minimum disruption to your browsing experience.
Crystal is a content blocker for iPhone & iPad designed to make the mobile web a great experience.
An ad blocker that saves the data expense that ads waste up to 4 times through blocking ads, and makes web surfing up to 3 times faster.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Safari
TBlock is a content blocker that uses the hosts file (that is present in all operating systems) to block undesired websites.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Photon Ad Block is a powerful native blocker for Safari that allows you to browse websites without annoying ads and tracking.
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Adamant is a content blocker for Safari and iOS 9 that removes distracting advertising, trackers, and other unwanted elements from web pages. It makes pages load faster, uses less data on your cellular connection, and saves your battery life.
This was posted over reddit a few months ago, Apparently Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. Is this a new thing they've implemented? and judging by all the recent comments and posts all over r/youtube, this change was just rolled out on a larger scale.
Fast and memory efficient content blocking Chrome extension - helps you hide ads, avoid tracking, load pages faster, fight procrastination. Detailed stats - requests count, size etc.
Video guide: Video guide: https://youtu.be/tBj7Bk0KVd4
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
Fight the text ads! Element Hiding Helper is a companion extension for Adblock Plus meant to make creating element hiding rules easier.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Adblock Plus
- GNU IceCat
- Firefox
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