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Adblock Plus

AdBlock Plus is a browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and several other popular browsers that prevents intrusive ads like pop-ups and malicious code from appearing on websites you visit.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Adblock Plus

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Adblock Plus are uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and AdAway. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Popular and efficient blocker for Chromium, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Thunderbird.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 3 social mentions

  2. Privacy Badger blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. How is Privacy Badger different from Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions?
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 84 social mentions

  3. 3
    An ad blocker that uses the hosts file. For Android, requires root.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 73 social mentions

  4. Block ads, trackers and malicious websites on all your devices.
    Pricing:

    #Security & Privacy #Threat Detection And Prevention #Ad Blockers 496 social mentions

  5. The best ad blocker for Android. Free and open source.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 236 social mentions

  6. Pi-hole is a multi-platform, network-wide ad blocker.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 1185 social mentions

  7. 7
    Fast and secure, ad and tracker blocking browser.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Web Tools 577 social mentions

  8. SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #OS & Utilities 360 social mentions

  9. NoScript for Firefox pre-emptively blocks malicious scripts and allows JavaScript, Java and other potentially dangerous content only from sites you trust. Download it now for free! - what is it?
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Privacy 53 social mentions

  10. 2B+ Android users deserve access to a safer and open Internet.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Monitoring Tools #Ad Blockers 21 social mentions

  11. Removes and prevents popups, overlays and cookie notifications, other tools do not. Enjoy the original look of the internet.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    • Free Trial

    #Web Browsers #Monitoring Tools #Log Management 1 social mentions

  12. a DNS proxy over local VPN for filtering ads and other unwished hosts based on a host list.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Monitoring Tools

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