The Best 10 Pi-hole Alternatives

  • AdAway icon

    AdAway

    An ad blocker that uses the hosts file. The hosts file contains a list of mappings between hostnames and IP addresses. When an app requests an ad, that request is directed to 127.0.0.1 which does nothing.

    Free Open Source Android

  • Privoxy icon

    Privoxy

    Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Squid icon

    Squid

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Self-Hosted FreeBSD NetBSD OpenSolaris Solaris

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    dnsmasq

    Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • StopAd icon

    StopAd

    StopAd is an ultimate tool blocking ads on all major browsers, apps, and social media, like Facebook and Youtube. It operates on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. .

    Free Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Mac

    Privacy protection Safari extension
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    Blokada

    The best ad blocker for Android that works for all apps and does not require root. Free and open source. Blokada efficiently blocks ads, tracking and malware. It saves your data plan, makes your device faster and protects your privacy.

    Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

  • Adaware Ad Block icon

    Adaware Ad Block

    By blocking annoying ads and nosy trackers, adaware ad block nearly doubles your browsing speed! The most robust antivirus level cloud scanning technology of any ad...

    Free Chrome OS Web Chrome Firefox Chromium