Top 7 Adware Open-Source Projects

nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker

11 3,667 9.8 Shell

Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders

Project mention: Nginx Bad Bot and User-Agent Blocker | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

1Hosts

32 1,320 0.0 HTML

World's most advanced DNS filter-/blocklists!

Project mention: Big things are happening with RaspAP's Ad Blocking 🛑 Users will soon have more blocklist sources to choose from | /r/RaspAP | 2023-10-08

Others include badmojr's excellent blocklists and OISD's dnsmasq-ready domains lists.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

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.
NextDNS-Config

69 1,209 7.4

Setup guide for NextDNS, a DoH proxy with advanced capabilities.

Project mention: Sensible configuration for NextDNS tracker and ad blocking | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-13

Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist

23 1,184 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).

hijackthis

12 661 6.9 Visual Basic 6.0

A free utility that finds malware, adware and other security threats

Project mention: PC slows down after downloading cracked games from Megathread sites | /r/Piracy | 2023-05-29

blackweb

2 317 6.2 Shell

Domains Blacklist for Squid-Cache

Project mention: السماح بالمواقع السيئة | /r/EgyptExTomato | 2023-09-19

SF

1 2 0.0

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WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

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.

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).