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🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories. (by StevenBlack)
uBlock
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. (by gorhill)
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| hosts | uBlock | |
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| 179 | 1724 | |
| 20,764 | 30,382 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.4 | 9.8 | |
| 8 days ago | 14 days ago | |
| Python | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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
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 2022-05-17.
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IT admin gets 7 years for wiping his company's servers to prove a point
and another https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts that combines hosts files from a bunch of different sources.
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XQC Goes back to Sponsored gambing, after being sorry and quitting a year ago. Silently placed #ad at end of title. [No Gambin in Clip]
There's another method that stops most ads as well, on a system level. By adding a zillion domains to block on your hosts file in windows. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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choose wisely
or https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
- Twitter is now somehow bypassing uBlock and blocking images posted on there by it's users
- i need help
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I would like to express my gratefulness to gorhill.
And there's a list of sites to block, on GitHub, Steven's hosts.
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Ubuntu Christian Edition -- Linux For Christians
Host Minder uses StevenBlack hosts. More information here on the blocking levels. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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Any free app/way to block websites/apps?
With Adaway you can block specific websites with different kind of dns-blocklist. Here are a few blocklists. You can also create own blocklists with the website/apps you want to block.
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Gambling Ads should be skippable.
I use Steven Black's hosts file so ads on the rest of the web don't even load on my computer, and then use uBlock Origin to block the stragglers.
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title
Steven :)
uBlock
Posts with mentions or reviews of uBlock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-21.
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How to install ublock origin for firefox 67 (my favorite and stable version)? I don't think that ublock is like chrome use and support the latest and discards old. Is it?
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.40.8 Is the newest that will work for you.
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Update URL and CDN URL's of Urlhaus filters changed
PR is already waiting: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/pull/3867
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Just got an ad between the 1st & 2nd Movements of Beethoven 9 (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ SACRILEGIOUS!
If you are using your browser, you can block ads in any and all websites with uBlock Origin.
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Grey bar in videos showing version of video player how to get rid of it?
Does this only happen in Firefox? Can you share a link or screenshot? uBlock Origin's picker tool can be used to select and hide unwanted elements.
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Why is it when i press the ublock sheild and try to unblock some sites on the module it won't let me do anything
You can still block/allow specific network requests using (no dynamic filtering necessary): https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/The-logger
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YouTube ads aren't always being blocked. They still are most of the time, but sometimes they won't block. Opera GX 85.0.4341.79
uBlock Origin recommends using Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
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If your current main browser is firefox, why?
uBlock Origin works well on Chromium. For now. Later it will be less effective in Chromium as Manifest v3 will be implemented. In addition, Firefox supports other APIs that Chromium does not support and allows Firefox to block other invisible trackers (this is why the developer of uBlock recommends using Firefox).
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How to remove this outlook mail ad banner? Tried to refresh and cleared the cache but doesn't help when I installed unlock. This is not browser limited issue but the same everywhere whether it is the edge, chrome, or opera. Any filters to add to remove this? Help.
Paste into uBO Dashboard -> My filters tab and apply changes.
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0 connected domains
What does the Logger say?
- Ad Blocking on school devices
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hosts and uBlock you can also consider the following projects:
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
bromite - Bromite a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
uMatrix - uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type
duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
ClearUrls
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
ClearURLs-Addon - ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
blitz-app-adblock - Simple and quick patcher that blocks ads/trackers on the Blitz.gg desktop application.
bypass-paywalls-firefox - Bypass Paywalls for Firefox