block VS hosts

Compare block vs hosts and see what are their differences.

hosts

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. (by StevenBlack)
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block hosts
95 306
2,444 25,205
0.0% -
0.0 9.5
10 months ago 4 days ago
Shell Python
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

block

Posts with mentions or reviews of block. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-07.

hosts

Posts with mentions or reviews of hosts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing block and hosts you can also consider the following projects:

blitz-app-adblock - Simple and quick patcher that blocks ads/trackers on the Blitz.gg desktop application.

CloudStream-3 - Android app for streaming and downloading Movies, TV-Series and Anime. [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]

uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

shallalist - DISCONTINUED!!! - Unpacked ShallaList Repo

easylist - EasyList filter subscription (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, EasyList Cookie, Fanboy's Social/Annoyances/Notifications Blocking List)

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

Nebulo - Mirror of https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen. Feel free to contribute here as well.

hosts-blocklists - Automatically updated, moderated and optimized lists for blocking ads, trackers, malware and other garbage

hosts - Hostfile blocklist for ads and tracking, updated regularly

nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

AdGuardHome - Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.