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Unbound

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Top 8 Open-Source Alternatives to Unbound

dnsmasq Pi-hole uBlock Origin NextDNS dhcpcd Blokada AdAway

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Unbound are dnsmasq, Pi-hole, 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. Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server.
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    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Block Ads 5 social mentions

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

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

  3. Popular and efficient blocker for Chromium, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Thunderbird.
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    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 3 social mentions

  4. Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices.
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    • Open Source

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

  5. Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.
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    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 1 social mentions

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    dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in RFC2131.
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    • Open Source

    #Monitoring Tools #Digital Drawing And Painting #DNS Services

  7. 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

  8. 8
    An ad blocker that uses the hosts file. For Android, requires root.
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    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 73 social mentions

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