awesome-adblock/README.md

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

1. Browser-based blocking
2. Network / DNS blocking
3. Userscripts
4. Cookie consent
5. YouTube / video
6. Masked email
7. VPNs

Browser-based blocking

Safari

• 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.
• Hush

Firefox

• uBlock Origin
• Privacy Badger
• Disable Page Visibility API
• ClearURLs
• DecentralEyes
• NoScript

Chrome

• uBlock Origin¹
• Privacy Badger
• Disable Page Visibility API
• ClearURLs
• DecentralEyes
• NoScript

Network / DNS blocking

• NextDNS
• Pi-hole
• Quad9
• AdGuard
• 1Blocker: in addition to blocking ads, the app provides an on-device firewall to mitigate in-app tracking and logging.

Userscripts

• Anti-adblock-killer

Cookie consent

Safari

• Super Agent

Firefox

• Super Agent
• I still don't care about cookies
• Consent-O-Matic

Chrome

• Super Agent
• I still don't care about cookies
• Consent-O-Matic

YouTube / video

Firefox

• SponsorBlock

Chrome

• SponsorBlock

Masked email

• Fastmail: see their support document.
• SimpleLogin

VPNs

• Mullvad
• Proton VPN
• IVPN

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1. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox for reasons detailed here. ↩︎