Based on our record, Pi-hole seems to be a lot more popular than Lockdown Privacy. While we know about 1185 links to Pi-hole, we've tracked only 20 mentions of Lockdown Privacy. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Everyone's talking about Lockdown but nobody provided a link, and it's a non-trivial thing to Google so here's their website for more info. Source: about 1 year ago
A little introduction: I am using Lockdown Privacy. It's an app with a local VPN which blocks ads and trackers systemwide on my iPhone en iPad. But strangely enough, it seems that it is using double data. Anyway, it's also not fool proof, so I am using AdGuard Safari extension too. Also on my Mac with custom elements that can be blocked. At home I also use AdGuard Home for my Mac (and some other devices). It's... Source: about 1 year ago
Do yourself a favour and use https://lockdownprivacy.com/ it’s FOSS and will get rid of those horrid ads.. Source: about 1 year ago
PSA: Lockdown does the same thing (they call it “Firewall”), is also open source and is available for iOS and macOS! Source: over 1 year ago
I would also suggest Lockdown for a more Blokada-like solution that can knock out a lot of ads and tracking in apps. Despite all of Apple's talk about privacy, with many third party apps you're on your own if you decide to actually use them. One of the more popular dating apps used to make my iPhone scary hot in the process of displaying tons of ads until I started using Lockdown. Yes, it was all... Source: over 1 year ago
Pi-hole to block ads and tracking for my less technically savvy relatives https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS. Note: This... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Can the piHole help us eliminate bandwidth wasting ads on TV's? https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
It definitely IS an option, but at the network level. https://pi-hole.net/ It runs on damn near everything, and is a DNS level adblocker for the whole network. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
I recently switched to Wipr [0]. It’s dead simple to use, and will auto update its filter lists in the background. Adguard [1] is a decent free option. I also use a Pi-hole [2] on my network. [0] https://kaylees.site/wipr.html [1] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html [2] https://pi-hole.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
AdAway - An ad blocker that uses the hosts file. For Android, requires root.
NextDNS - Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices.
Blokada - The best ad blocker for Android. Free and open source.
1Blocker - 1Blocker is a content blocking software that you can rely on to save time and money. Unlike its competitors who use JavaScript to block ads after they have been download, 1Blocker does the contrary. Read more about 1Blocker.
AdGuard - Surf the Web Ad-Free and Safely. Shield up!
SponsorBlock - SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.