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Hosts Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to hosts
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uBlock
uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
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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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user.js
Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening
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hosts
Hostfile blocklist for ads and tracking, updated regularly (by lightswitch05)
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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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hosts-blocklists
Discontinued Automatically updated, moderated and optimized lists for blocking ads, trackers, malware and other garbage
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blitz-app-adblock
Simple and quick patcher that blocks ads/trackers on the Blitz.gg desktop application.
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uBlock-issues
This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin
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The Blocklist Project
These lists were created because the founder of the project wanted something with a little more control over what is being blocked. Many lists out there are all or nothing. We set out to create lists with more control over what is being blocked and believe that we have accomplished that. (by blocklistproject)
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easylist
EasyList filter subscription (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, EasyList Cookie, Fanboy's Social/Annoyances/Notifications Blocking List)
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fuckfuckadblock
Filters for blocking mining, pop-ups and anti-adblock bypass.
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SmartTube
SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS
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opensnitch
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
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blocklists
Shared lists of problem domains people may want to block with hosts files
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SaaSHub
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better hosts alternative or higher similarity.
hosts reviews and mentions
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 2023-12-06.
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Does PiHole block porn?
Not by default but a blocklist can be found here https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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Steven Black DNS blocklist blocked gstatic.com
While it is now unblocked, the Steven Black list has been blocking a lot of innocent CDNs.
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Open Source Ad Blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux
How does this compare to using a hosts file with known ad servers?
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Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
I use the Hosts file to block a ton of ads and that works really well. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Something worth considering if your ad blocker isn't working well.
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Big things are happening with RaspAP's Ad Blocking 🛑 Users will soon have more blocklist sources to choose from
The no-tracking project used by RaspAP is shutting down, so we took the opportunity to search for open source blocklist alternatives. Among the best is Steven Black's hosts list: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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Radar Maps: $0.50 per 1K map loads
No idea, api.radar.io is on the block list since January 2020.
The commit's comment is "major update from adaway.org"
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Browser extensions spy on you, even if its developers don't
You can also use a declarative adblocker like uBlock Origin Lite [1], which only provides the browser with a list of elements to filter, but doesn't have any permissions to read content or perform requests. Or simply use your hosts file to apply OS-wide filtering with no browser add-ons needed: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Be aware that if you use these "passive" blocking methods, there are some sites like YouTube where you will see ads, because in these cases it's necessary to actually manipulate page content to hide them. What you can do is use a traditional adblocker but enable it only for these few sites where the declarative approach is not enough, take a look at [2] for more details.
[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home
[2] https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/04/layered-content-blocking...
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[Paid Release]CCAdsBeGone - Customized Ads Blocking At Your Fingertips
There is one main GitHub that I found (could be many many more) and based my research on - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts this GitHub contains many many different hosts for different purposes, you can just download one and upload the one you want to use from CCAdsBeGone settings, if you feel the default shipped in file of the tweak is not sufficient for your needs.
When I select my custom hosts file, it basically breaks internet. However, if I choose a custom hosts file that is a copy of the dev's default, or if I just add a few lines to it, it will work. If I add too many lines, or use a different hosts file altogether (like the ones recommended by the dev), all connectivity breaks. Of course the latest official LetMeBlock is installed and mDNSResponder killed/restarted. I'm using Dopamine on A12+.
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StevenBlack/hosts is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of hosts is Python.
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