Irbis Zen
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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...
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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"Block system‑wide... Zen blocks ads, trackers, and malware across browsers and desktop apps." FOSS Latest release as 0.25.1, August 13, 2026. Sound Great.. tiny download, However.. It depends on Webview2 which takes 500mb.
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Great, system-wide ad-blocker. You can use this rather than having something like uBlock on all your browsers, and it protects in other apps as well.
However, when tested, it's not quite as good as uBlock or Brave Shields. While it blocks the ads, often there is just an empty gray box that says advertisement where using only Zen, while with uBlock and Brave Shields, they remove that element to make the page look more clean.
It's also only useful as a stupid simple GUI. You can just add blocklists to DNSCrypt. Having this is redundant.
"Block system‑wide... Zen blocks ads, trackers, and malware across browsers and desktop apps." FOSS Latest release as 0.25.1, August 13, 2026. Sound Great.. tiny download, However.. It depends on Webview2 which takes 500mb.
Looks to be a free open-source system-wide ad-blocker similar to Adguard for OS. Would be interesting to compare both of these.