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Hosts by Steven Black

Extending and consolidating hosts files from several well-curated sources like adaway.org, mvps.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Hosts by Steven Black

NextDNS uBlock Origin RethinkDNS personalDNSfilter Blokada Pi-hole AdAway Bromite Technitium DNS Server Energized Protection

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Hosts by Steven Black are NextDNS, uBlock Origin, and RethinkDNS. 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.
  1. Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Threat Detection And Prevention #Ad Blockers 499 social mentions

  2. 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

  3. 2B+ Android users deserve access to a safer and open Internet.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Monitoring Tools #Ad Blockers 21 social mentions

  4. a DNS proxy over local VPN for filtering ads and other unwished hosts based on a host list.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Monitoring Tools

  5. The best ad blocker for Android. Free and open source.
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    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 236 social mentions

  6. Pi-hole is a multi-platform, network-wide ad blocker.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 1185 social mentions

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    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

  8. Bromite is Chromium plus ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
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    • Open Source

    #Tool #Security & Privacy #Monitoring Tools 4 social mentions

  9. Technitium DNS Server is an open source tool that can be used for self hosting a local DNS server for privacy & security or, used for testing by developers on their computer.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 30 social mentions

  10. This Energized System is designed to be available for all OSs, systems. gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple reputable sources and creates a hosts file that prevents your system from connecting to them.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 31 social mentions

  11. 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

  12. 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

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