Google cracks down on VPN-based adblockers like Blokada 5

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  • Pi-hole

    A black hole for Internet advertisements

  • Or Pi-hole And VPN-ing into your home network while you're out and about.

  • nextdns

    NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

  • NextDNS is always an option too.

  • WorkOS

    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.

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  • skyhole

    a DNS over TLS wrapper around PiHole - the internet's best adblocker

  • Neo-Store

    An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.

  • Neo Store is an alternative F-Droid frontend that is a lot more polished and even supports automatic updates with the Android 12 API (no need for a privileged extension). I highly recommend checking it out: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store

  • Cider

    A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. 🚀

  • I've been using Cider on my Windows devices.

  • Private-DNS-Quick-Tile

    A simple app that adds a quick tile to toggle the Private DNS settings on Android 9.0+

  • iceraven-browser

    Iceraven Browser

  • try Iceraven, it's a fork of Firefox with support for a lot more extensions (it uses a custom addon collection, so if a niche one is not available iirc you can open an issue on github to get it added) and Mozilla telemetry removed

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • tracker-control-android

    TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads.

  • Tracker Control (GitHub/FDroid)

  • Netguard

    Discontinued A simple way to block access to the internet per app

  • NetGuard (GitHub/FDroid)

  • AdAway

    AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android.

  • AdAway (GitHub/FDroid)

  • stash

    StaSh - Shell for Pythonista (by ywangd)

  • Pythonista: a very competent python development and runtime environment allowing some pretty complex automations in conjunction with Siri Shortcuts. You can even install stash on it, a python based shell.

  • UTM

    Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

  • UTM: a general purpose emulator available with the help of AltStore above.

  • AltStore

    AltStore is an alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices.

  • AltStore: unofficial sideloading for iOS. This functions by automating the update of apps using a free or paid developer account. Once you have a stable setup, this is painless and transparent.

  • uYouPlus

    uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!

  • My favorite one was this YouTube mod: uYouPlus. For a while, google was doing its usual stupid shenanigans around YouTube and the iOS native Picture in Picture video player (apple wasn’t helping, but it was mostly google being greedy). This app enabled pip across the board, along with a ton of other cool stuff.

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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