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Top 23 Adblock Open-Source Projects

  1. AdGuardHome

    Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

    Project mention: Down the Rabbit Hole of creating a Home Lab | dev.to | 2025-04-23

    AdGuard Home - Network-wide DNS privacy and ad blocking

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. youtube-music

    YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins

  4. SpotX

    SpotX patcher used for patching the desktop version of Spotify

  5. dns-blocklists

    DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean!

    Project mention: Xcode Constantly Phones Home | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-01

    Personally I use a dns block list like https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists with dnmasq or dnsdist. Works great :)

  6. SponsorBlock

    Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

    Project mention: Ask HN: What project do you donate to? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-26
  7. anti-AD

    致力于成为中文区命中率最高的广告过滤列表,实现精确的广告屏蔽和隐私保护。anti-AD 现已支持 AdGuardHome,dnsmasq,Surge,Pi-Hole,Clash, mihomo,smartdns,sing-box 等网络组件。完全兼容常见的广告过滤工具所支持的各种广告过滤列表格式

  8. SaaSHub

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

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  9. alternative-front-ends

    Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)

    Project mention: Show HN: Seek Anywhere – A Chrome/Brave Extension | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-01
  10. bromite

    Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

  11. blocky

    Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features

    Project mention: Ask HN: What are you replacing uBlock Origin with? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-11

    This might be of interest to you:

    https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky

  12. 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.

  13. whitelist

    A simple tool to add commonly white listed domains to your Pi-Hole setup.

  14. 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)

  15. AdguardFilters

    AdGuard Content Blocking Filters

    Project mention: AdguardFilters from AdguardTeam has been removed by GitHub | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-03
  16. AdguardBrowserExtension

    AdGuard browser extension

  17. SpotX-Bash

    SpotX Mac and Linux adblocker for the Spotify desktop client, in Bash

  18. zen-desktop

    Simple, free and efficient ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, macOS and Linux

    Project mention: Open-Source Development is Amazing! | dev.to | 2024-11-24

    At the beginning, I have found an issue, where I was supposed to move App Icon from Dock to Tray for macOS users. It sounds really simple. However, project is written in Go which I had never used before. If you are a reader that is familiar with my blogs, you definitely know how often I learn new programming-languages. Going forward, I decided to learn Go lang from scratch.

  19. block

    Let's make an annoyance free, better open internet, altogether!

  20. filterlists

    Collection of blocklists to fill in the gaps (by yokoffing)

  21. easylist

    EasyList filter subscription (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, EasyList Cookie, Fanboy's Social/Annoyances/Notifications Blocking List)

    Project mention: How to Detect AdBlock/AdBlockPlus Activation Status with JavaScript | dev.to | 2025-03-22

    After reviewing AdBlock Plus documentation, I discovered they use EasyList as their default filter rules. EasyList is a community-maintained open-source filter list targeting ads and trackers.

  22. privaxy

    Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic. Also check out my new project, https://www.merklemap.com/

    Project mention: Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-31

    I run https://www.merklemap.com/ a certificate transparency / subdomain search engine.

    I’d say that this kind of projects are not different than any entrepreneurial endeavor, and the biggest challenge is usually acquisition.

  23. fadblock

    Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

  24. serverless-dns

    The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, and Fly.io

    Project mention: RethinkDNS Resolver That Deploys to CF Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, Fly.io | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-03
  25. SaaSHub

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

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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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Adblock projects? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 AdGuardHome 28,750
2 youtube-music 22,227
3 SpotX 17,232
4 dns-blocklists 12,019
5 SponsorBlock 11,509
6 whoogle-search 10,746
7 anti-AD 9,356
8 alternative-front-ends 7,899
9 bromite 5,995
10 blocky 5,377
11 wirehole 4,852
12 whitelist 4,279
13 The Blocklist Project 4,194
14 AdguardFilters 3,696
15 AdguardBrowserExtension 3,509
16 SpotX-Bash 3,378
17 zen-desktop 2,996
18 block 2,633
19 filterlists 2,515
20 easylist 2,501
21 privaxy 2,448
22 fadblock 2,420
23 serverless-dns 2,419

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