Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy

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  • AdAway

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

  • Not at all. You can get it from F-droid. Who cares about PlayStore for stuff like that. Install it directly from Github or use a repo on F-Droid.

  • chromium

    The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

  • 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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  • wireguard-install

    WireGuard VPN installer for Linux servers

  • 1.) https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install on your Pi-hole

  • wirehole

    WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.

  • nextdns

    NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)

  • wireguard-install

    WireGuard road warrior installer for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Fedora (by Nyr)

  • wg-easy

    Discontinued The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI. [Moved to: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy] (by WeeJeWel)

  • There's a project called wg-easy that is terrifically easy to get working

  • 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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  • SmartTube

    SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS

  • Or you could sideload SmartTubeNext, which was built for TVs.

  • fdroiddata

  • Not long ago they were slow to make rudimentary changes to stop tracking their users: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/8605 [0]

  • Pi-hole

    A black hole for Internet advertisements

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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