Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker Alternatives for Linux

Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Zen Ad-Blocker, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker are Privoxy, hBlock, TrackMeNot and ScriptSafe.

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  1. Zen Ad-Blocker icon
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    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
     
  2. Privoxy icon
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    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
     
  3. hBlock icon
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    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)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Homebrew
     
  4. TrackMeNot icon
     19 likes

    TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy:...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  5. ScriptSafe icon
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    A simple extension that brings some of NoScript 's functionality to Chrome while emphasizing simplicity and intuitiveness (no affiliation to NoScript or NotScripts).

    11 ScriptSafe alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Chromium
    • Firefox
     
  6. OptMeowt icon
     1 like

    OptMeowt ("Opt Me Out") is a browser extension for sending Do Not Sell signals to websites per the Global Privacy Control draft spec.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  7. Maza icon
     2 likes

    Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. Prevent your browser from connecting to 3rd party domain without user consent. Increase your privacy, security, and speed by blocking unnecessary requests.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
     
  9. Ads Killer icon
     2 likes

    Ads Killer is easy to use and powerful ad blocker for Google Chrome, Opera and Chromium based browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Chromium
     
  10. ZenMate Web Firewall is a security solution that blocks malware, trackers and security threats, plus free Ad Blocker against Malvertising!.

    90 ZenMate Web Firewall alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
  11. Blocks specific site scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Comodo Dragon Internet Browser
     
  12. Privaxy icon
     3 likes

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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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