hosts-blocklists
Automatically updated, moderated and optimized lists for blocking ads, trackers, malware and other garbage (by notracking)
ua-client-hints
Wouldn't it be nice if `User-Agent` was a (set of) client hints? (by WICG)
| hosts-blocklists | ua-client-hints | |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 14 | |
| 2,298 | 576 | |
| - | 1.9% | |
| 0.0 | 4.4 | |
| 11 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Bikeshed | ||
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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.
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.
hosts-blocklists
Posts with mentions or reviews of hosts-blocklists.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-24.
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Customer filter lists not working?
https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists seems dead. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt should work except the regex rules.
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Receiving this TLS certificate error on all proton applications
had the same issue, was caused by notracking
- Is Proton Mail down atm?
- Notracking list is blocking Proton
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hosts-blocklists VS Lists - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 19 Jan 2023
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I built a map of countries where Google Analytics is illegal
Unfortunate that the map is on your simpleanalytics.com site. NextDNS tells me it is blocked by the notracking list: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists
- TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don’t Use App
- Listas de bloqueio de DNS focadas no mercado brasileiro?
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PSA about a scam when googling for OBS software
Here is a project that attempts to do that
- What DNS block lists do you use?
ua-client-hints
Posts with mentions or reviews of ua-client-hints.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-19.
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Website Fidelity
The Client Hints specification covers a lot of this already - https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#content-adaptation-u... ... DPR, width, and viewport-width are already available in some browsers. Hopefully other hints will be available soon.
- UA Gotta Be Kidding
- Példátlan leállás jöhet a neten, és nem is lesz egyszerű megoldani
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Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
I encourage you to review the decision making and engage in the discussion here: https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints
- W3C User Agent Client Hints
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Google Chrome Update will cause Big Issue For 2 Billion Users
chrome is starting to implement UA-CH, which splits up user agent info into individual headers sent by the client: https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/
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JP Morgan Chase Bank, or Why Not to Whitelist Operating System User Agents
As a Firefox/FreeBSD user occasionally annoyed by this nonsense, but not being knowledgeable about modern web standards evolution, I wonder if https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/ will fix this by killing User-Agent headers.
- W3C User-Agent Client Hints ( SEC-CH-UA-* HTTP Headers)
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Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
ua-ch might reduce the amount of data browsers send, though it's gonna take a while to move away from regular user agents: https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/
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Mozilla alters stance on User-Agent Client Hints from “non-harmful” to “harmful”
There is a JS companion to this proposal that splits up the information in a similar way
https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#interface
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hosts-blocklists and ua-client-hints you can also consider the following projects:
1Hosts - World's most advanced DNS filter-/blocklists!
web - Pi-hole Dashboard for stats and more
brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
chromium-legacy - Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary/Stable) for Mac OS X 10.7+
hosts - 🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-features - Disallow features that aren't supported by your target browser audience.
iOSAdblockList - Ultimate Host List for Mobile Adblockers (Focused on iOS)
evercookie - Produces persistent, respawning "super" cookies in a browser, abusing over a dozen techniques. Its goal is to identify users after they've removed standard cookies and other privacy data such as Flash cookies (LSOs), HTML5 storage, SilverLight storage, and others.
NextDNS-Config
ethical-ad-client - Ethical Ads JavaScript client
notrack-blocklists
stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe
hosts-blocklists vs 1Hosts
ua-client-hints vs web
hosts-blocklists vs brave-browser
ua-client-hints vs chromium-legacy
hosts-blocklists vs hosts
ua-client-hints vs stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-features
hosts-blocklists vs iOSAdblockList
ua-client-hints vs evercookie
hosts-blocklists vs NextDNS-Config
ua-client-hints vs ethical-ad-client
hosts-blocklists vs notrack-blocklists
ua-client-hints vs stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe