AdBlock Alternatives for Linux

AdBlock is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is NextDNS, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to AdBlock and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to AdBlock are Zen Ad-Blocker, Privoxy, hBlock and Hostsblock.

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  1. NextDNS icon
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    NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.

    140 NextDNS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • UC Browser
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • UniFi Network
    • Safari
    • Yandex Browser
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • OpenWrt
    • Opera
    • Alpine Linux
    • pfSense
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • DD-WRT
     
  2. Zen Ad-Blocker icon
     18 likes

    Zen is an open-source system-wide ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It works by setting up a proxy that intercepts HTTP requests from all applications, and blocks those serving ads, tracking scripts that monitor your behavior, malware, and other...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  3. Privoxy icon
     60 likes

    Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

    58 Privoxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. hBlock icon
     10 likes

    hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file (alternative formats are also supported) that prevents your system from connecting to...

    33 hBlock alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Homebrew
     
  5. Hostsblock icon
     1 like

    Hostsblock is a bash script for Linux designed to take advantage of the HOSTS file available in all operating systems to provide system-wide blocking of internet advertisements, malicious domains, trackers, and other undesirable content.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
  7. AdZap icon
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    Adzap gives you ultimate power over the advertising you see. A lot of the time, the ads you see while using the web are quite annoying or irrelevant. The Adzap browser add-on recognizes all of the ads on a page and lets you Zap the ones you don’t like by putting a clickable Ray...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
  8. Privaxy icon
     3 likes

    Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Stands icon
     4 likes

    Change the way you experience the web and stand up for what you believe in: Block ads and online trackers for much cleaner and private browsing. Let just a few ads appear on every site - and the ads will also sponsor the charity you choose to support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
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