DNS66 blocks advertisements on Android by intercepting DNS requests using Android's VPN layer and blocking requests for blacklisted hosts.
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- Android
- F-Droid
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Hostsblock Alternatives
Apps similar to Hostsblock include uBlock Origin, which is free and open source. Other options are NextDNS, Adblock Plus, AdGuard and SponsorBlock. There's no shortage of Ad Blockers like Hostsblock, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and iPad.
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- 26 DNS66 alternatives
96 Wipr alternativesEffectively blocks ads, trackers, cryptocurrency miners, and popups across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, ensuring cleaner, faster web pages. It improves battery life, reduces data use, updates its blocklist twice weekly, and is fully accessible, focusing on user privacy.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Safari
- Global
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All we know the availability of popular AdBlockers lying around... but frankly, these are too bloated with several features and options which most of us don't use beyond the defaults. So, this extension was made for those of us who don't care about all that stuff but...
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- Google Chrome
- Firefox
Spain- EU
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A fundamental re-design of user Data Privacy. Your multi-tool for online protection. So easy your grandma could use it. Costs less than a cup of coffee per year.
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- Freemium
- Open Source
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- iPhone
- iPad
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personalDNSfilter is a DNS filter proxy written in Java. It hooks into the domain name (DNS) resolution and returns the loopback address for filtered hosts.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Android
- Germany
- EU
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Based on DNS66, this projects aims to continue the goals of the original app with modern Android development practices.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Android
- F-Droid
- OpenAPK
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Technitium DNS Server is an open source tool that can be used as a personal local DNS server for privacy & security. It includes Ad blocking feature combined with DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS support.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
India
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34 hBlock alternativeshBlock 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Homebrew
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Ad Muncher is a powerful advert and popup blocking system for all browsers and advert-displaying programs like Pando, SopCast, ICQ, Morpheus, Kazaa, Grokster, Opera, PalTalk, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWire, TVAnts.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- United Kingdom
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Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Windows
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Yandex Browser
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Mac
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Quad9 Connect is an Android and ChromeOS app that sends your DNS queries to Quad9's secure, private, open recursive DNS service.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Android
- Chrome OS
- F-Droid
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BlockBear is a really simple, often adorable app that blocks ads and protects your privacy from within Safari.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- iPhone
- iPad
- Safari
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