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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to RethinkDNS

NextDNS Blokada uBlock Origin personalDNSfilter Hush Nag Blocker SponsorBlock Pi-hole Bromite AdAway ProtonVPN

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to RethinkDNS are NextDNS, Blokada, and uBlock Origin. 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. The best ad blocker for Android. Free and open source.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

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

  3. 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

  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. Hush Nag Blocker is an app for iOS that blocks ads and tracks cookies on your Safari browser.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #OS & Utilities #Security & Privacy #Monitoring Tools 6 social mentions

  6. 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

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

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

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

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

  9. 9
    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

  10. ProtonVPN is a security focused FREE VPN service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists. Use the web anonymously, unblock websites & encrypt your connection.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #VPN #Cloud VPN #Security 310 social mentions

  11. 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

  12. A protocol to improve DNS security
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #DNS #DNS Tools 12 social mentions

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