Awesome adblock
A community maintained and organized list of resources to block, limit, evade and otherwise futz with ads, ad tech and web tracking.
Advertising on the web has grown to a point where it's pervasive, manipulative and outright pernicious. Let's contribute resources to make mitigating the presence of ads and all of their negative externalities easier.
Table of contents
- Browser-based blocking
- Network / DNS blocking
- Userscripts
- Cookie consent
- YouTube / video
- Masked email
- VPNs
Browser-based blocking
Safari
- AdGuard
- 1Blocker
- Banish: targeted specifically at blocking 'Open in App' prompts.
- Stop the Madness: mitigates a number of modern anti-patterns such as hyperlink auditing, clickjacking, tracking beacons, URL shorteners and so forth.
- Unsmartifier: removes smart app banners.
- Hush
Firefox
- uBlock Origin
- Privacy Badger
- Stop the Madness
- Disable Page Visibility API
- ClearURLs
- DecentralEyes
- NoScript
Chrome
- uBlock Origin1
- Privacy Badger
- Stop the Madness
- Disable Page Visibility API
- ClearURLs
- DecentralEyes
- NoScript
Network / DNS / hosts blocking
- NextDNS
- Pi-hole
- Quad9
- Steven Black: hosts
- AdGuard
- 1Blocker: in addition to blocking ads, the app provides an on-device firewall to mitigate in-app tracking and logging.
Userscripts
Cookie consent
Safari
Firefox
Chrome
YouTube / video
Firefox
Chrome
Masked email
VPNs
Footnotes
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uBlock Origin works best on Firefox for reasons detailed here. β©