Top 6 Shell Blocker Projects

Pi-hole

2,357 46,711 8.0 Shell

A black hole for Internet advertisements

Project mention: Usando NextDNS CLI en tu red. | dev.to | 2024-04-22

Si te preguntas, ¿por qué no usar Adguard o Pihole? 🤔

blokada

485 3,013 8.3 Shell

The official repo for Blokada apps.

Project mention: Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site | /r/Games | 2023-07-11

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
hblock

29 1,463 7.4 Shell

Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.

Project mention: This is a new kind of scammer | /r/india | 2023-06-03

I'm talking something like hblock (https://hblock.molinero.dev/) which is for host blocking malceous+ other websites. Imagine blocking every single address manually. To get a picture how impossible it be here is the sample hosts file (https://hblock.molinero.dev/hosts) just do line count and you will understand.

Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist

23 1,183 0.0 Shell

The Ultimate Unified Hosts file for protecting your network, computer, smartphones and Wi-Fi devices against millions of bad web sites. Protect your children and family from gaining access to bad web sites and protect your devices and pc from being infected with Malware or Ransomware.

Project mention: Block Adware and Malware with /etc/hosts | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-12

https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.B...
Don't forget about hosts.deny (but you probably need it at your router if you are behind one).

simpleoptout

6 143 5.6 Shell

Deep links to opt-out of data sharing by 100+ companies.

Project mention: Did you turn off Google activity tracking? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-10

If you're in to disabling stuff that you'd never intentionally enable, I've got a much longer list here: https://simpleoptout.com/ (HN discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18975189).
Google search history/customization: https://simpleoptout.com/#google
YouTube watch history & search history: https://simpleoptout.com/#youtube

smashblock

3 66 2.5 Shell

📡 🛡️A self-updating extensive blocklist filter for AdGaurd. Be sure to 🌟 this repository for updates!

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).