Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus

AdBlock Plus is a browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and several other popular browsers that prevents intrusive ads like pop-ups and malicious code from appearing on websites you visit.

Product categories

Ad Blockers Block Ads DNS DNS Tools Log Management Monitoring Tools OS & Utilities Privacy Productivity Security & Privacy Threat Detection And Prevention Web Browsers

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Adblock Plus are uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and AdAway. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

uBlock Origin Landing Page
1

uBlock Origin

Popular and efficient blocker for Chromium, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Thunderbird.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 3 social mentions
Privacy Badger Landing Page
2

Privacy Badger

Privacy Badger blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. How is Privacy Badger different from Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions?
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 84 social mentions
AdAway Landing Page
3

AdAway

An ad blocker that uses the hosts file. For Android, requires root.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 73 social mentions
NextDNS Landing Page
4

NextDNS

Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Threat Detection And Prevention #Ad Blockers 499 social mentions
Blokada Landing Page
5

Blokada

The best ad blocker for Android. Free and open source.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 236 social mentions
Pi-hole Landing Page
6

Pi-hole

Pi-hole is a multi-platform, network-wide ad blocker.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 1185 social mentions
Brave Landing Page
7

Brave

Fast and secure, ad and tracker blocking browser.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Web Tools 577 social mentions
Disconnect Landing Page
8

Disconnect

Make the web faster, more private, and more secure. Disconnect lets you visualize and block the invisible sites that track your search and browsing history.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 7 social mentions
SponsorBlock Landing Page
9

SponsorBlock

SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 360 social mentions
NoScript Landing Page
10

NoScript

NoScript for Firefox pre-emptively blocks malicious scripts and allows JavaScript, Java and other potentially dangerous content only from sites you trust. Download it now for free! - what is it?
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 53 social mentions
PopUpOFF Landing Page
11

PopUpOFF

Removes and prevents popups, overlays and cookie notifications, other tools do not. Enjoy the original look of the internet.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
- Free Trial
#Web Browsers #Monitoring Tools #Log Management 1 social mentions
RethinkDNS Landing Page
12

RethinkDNS

2B+ Android users deserve access to a safer and open Internet.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Monitoring Tools #Ad Blockers 21 social mentions