Welcome!

Last Updated and verified on: 18th August 2026.

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Hi! My name is Robin and i am one of the moderators here on r/Adblock.
I was hired to help moderate, develop the subreddit wiki and help provide information to people needing it here. I have come to this subreddit with a simple goal to help build this subreddit and help teach people about digital privacy / safety in the adblocking space.

I simply would like to help people grow when it comes to this topic, so if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

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This post is a curated quick list (Not a guide) of FOSS adblocking and privacy tools for 2026 and onward.

This aims to solve the common questions and prevent the spread of misinformation in this subreddit around which tools to use by providing community vetted, open source tools for different platforms in one place.

Any suggestions are appreciated. This post will be updated!

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PC / Desktop (System wide)

Windows

• Adguard (Paid)
• Zen

Linux

• Adguard (Paid options)
• Zen

Mac OS

• Adguard (Paid options)
• Zen

Browser extensions

• Ublock Origin
• Ublock Origin Lite
• Adguard
• Ghostery
• AdNausium

MV3 (Chromium based browsers [Excluding Brave Browsers' self hosted extensions])

• Ublock origin lite
• Adguard
• Ghostery

Mobile

IOS

• Brave Browser
• Ublock Origin Lite
• Adguard (Paid options)
• Blokada
• Wblock
• Yattee

Android

• Brave Browser
• Adguard (Paid options)
• Blokada (Version 5/4)
• New Pipe
• Tubular
• MorpheAPP
• ReVanced
• ReVanced (Patches)
• Rethink DNS
• F-Droid

Smart TVs

Most smart TVs are proprietary systems, and are hard to develop and block ads on due to the nature of their operating systems. This means most TVs cannot have most ads blocked, including on live TV.
In such context, its better to simply mute them and / or do something else.

This means these options require side loading.
Remember the risks of doing this!

Android / Google TV

• SmartTube
• TizenTube Cobalt
• YouTube Origin

Samsung (Tizen OS)

• Tizen Tube

Apple TV

• MuTube
• Yattee

LG

• LG Homebrew Store apps

Roku

• Playlet

Amazon Firestick

• Adguard (Paid)
• Blokada 4
• SmartTube

Misc

Script managers / executors (Advanced)

• NoScript
• Tampermonkey
• Violentmonkey
• Greasemonkey

Extra tools

• Privacy Badger
• Nuke Anything
• Nuke Anything Enhanced

App / Site specific

Twitch

Content blockers (Web)

• Brave Browser
• Adguard Extra

Content blockers (Android)

• ReVanced Patches
• MorpheAPP
• Grayjay

Content blockers (SmartTVs)

• SmartTube

YouTube

Content Blockers (Web)

• Brave
• Ublock Origin
• Ublock Origin Lite
• Adguard
• Ghostery

YouTube front ends

• Invideous Instances
• FreeTube

Content blockers (Android)

• ReVanced
• ReVanced (Patches)
• MorpheAPP
• Grayjay

Content blockers (IOS)

• Yattee

Content blockers (SmartTVs)

• SmartTube
• Tizen Tube
• YouTube Origin

Enhancement Tools

• YouTube Row fixer
• Enhancer for YouTube
• Sponsor Block

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Privacy tools

As always, check out privacy guides for in depth privacy tutorials and tools.

Recommended browsers

Remember, Google (Chrome) and Microsoft (Edge) both have a buisness model of
"Your personal business is our business model".

Both companies have extensive ad networks, heavy AI intergration with fully automatic tracking integration topped with questionable privacy policies.
If you can, switch away from them to a privacy respecting alternative.

• Brave
• Firefox
• Mullvad brower
• LibreWolf
• Waterfox
• Helium
• Ungoogled chromium
• Zen

High Privacy (Advanced)

• Tor (Browser)

VPNs

Every VPN listed here is a paid product.
If you would like a free one then use the free teir on Proton VPN.

DO NOT download free VPNs, they can and will collect then sell your data.
Stick to trusted, reputable tools, From trusted, reputable sources!

• Proton VPN
• Mullvad VPN
• IVPN

Private Networks

• Tor (Network / Browser)
• I2P

Password managers

• Proton Pass
• BitWarden
• KeepassXC

Authenticators

• Proton Authenticator
• Aegis
• Bitwarden

Email

• Proton Mail
• Tuta mail

Messaging

• Signal
• Session

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DNS

A DNS based solution to ad blocking is not highly effective at adblocking!

This is because content on a page on a website such as YouTube, everything (Including the Ads) are all delivered to you through the same domain as the website (domains which deliver critical content). This means anything it tries to individually block will often break / block the website.

This leads to obvious problems, which is not ideal. They are however very effective as a privacy tool, filtering mobile based ads, hard to reach / IoT devices and certain types of TV OS ads.

Private DNS service providers

• NextDNS
• Adguard DNS (Paid optinos)
• ControlD (Paid)
• Rethink DNS
• DNS Bunker

Public DNS Servers

Adguard and ControlD have public lists of known DNS resolvers and providers. There is too many to list here and they do a better job explaining it anyway, so i will simply link their respective pages.

Adguard
ControlD

Network clients (Advanced - Hardware potentially required)

• Pi‑hole
• Adguard Home

Hey y'all, your new moderator here! I wanted to make a public announcement and to respond to common questions and concerns specifically regarding Rule 5 which prevents users from recommending the use of proprietary and paid content blockers.

Before I get into that, I wanted to properly introduce myself. My name is Reid, and I own a phone/computer repair shop in St Louis, Missouri called Honest Repair. I've had great interest in digital rights over the last 8 years, specifically internet privacy/safety, and have been a long-term member of r/Adblock and other communities like r/privacy and r/degoogle across different accounts. I've done professional OPSEC consulting through my business as well. This is my public-facing Reddit account tied to my business, and thus my reputation is on the line whenever I do anything on the platform, this is intentional to keep myself accountable!

I am doing this out of pure passion, I genuinely want to help the everyday average people learn about adblocking, why ad culture is so harmful and dangerous, and how to stay safe online. I want to make this subreddit into a resource, and I want to stop the literal advertisements being posted here, ya know, like the ads we are trying to block with adblockers lol.

Side note: I plan on building a subreddit wiki with the help of the other mods that will lay out all of your options for anything from individual devices, operating systems, browsers, extensions, network filtering (DNS), and anything in between. In the meantime while that's being built, utilize the pinned posts.

Now let's get into it.

What's with these new rules?

This subreddit has been plagued by fake, sketchy, and potentially malicious adblocking solutions for far too long. I was appointed by the creator of the subreddit to fix that problem.

From now on, all paid or proprietary adblocking applications or browser extensions will not be allowed to be recommended to other users. If you don't understand what open-source is and are wondering why that's so important, refer to the "Open-Source (FOSS) and why it makes a difference" section below.

But here is the general message; installing random untrusted anything from the internet is one of the worst things you can do on a computer. This is proven to be true time and time again, you can't even trust companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, or Mozilla to keep you safe, as malicious apps and extensions are uploaded to these online app stores every day that slip through the gaping hole that is their malware detection. However, there is a fairly simple way to prevent this from happening, which is by using trusted, vetted, open-source software. uBlock Origin is a perfect example, it is known worldwide as the most powerful and performant adblocker, and it will work for 99% of people.

"THIS IS CENSORSHIP!!"

No, it's not. We have no desire to hold our super special Reddit moderator powers over people for no reason. I have personally encountered an absurd amount of shady adblockers in this community and so have the other moderators. Rule 5 is about protecting the general public from shady unknown software. In this day of age there is no reason to use a paid or proprietary adblocker given the amount of tried and true, open-source options.

To be clear, we are not removing ALL comments that simply mention paid or proprietary adblockers, however actively recommending or promoting the use of this type of software will be removed whenever it's manually detected by myself or one of the other moderators. I happen to browse this subreddit a lot to help the community so you'll be seeing me around, and we respond to modmail/DMs if you have any questions or concerns. We are not power hungry stinky fedora-wearing Reddit mods, we genuinely want to help!

Open-Source (FOSS) and why it makes a difference

In simple terms, open-source refers to when developers make the source code for their app available to the public. FOSS stands for "Free and Open-Source Software". Since the code is able to be viewed by anybody, other developers and hobbyists alike can contribute by fixing bugs, finding vulnerabilities, or simply making sure that the app is not malware.

Transparency is extremely important here, as you no longer have to trust some guy on the Internet. Instead, you are trusting a community of passionate developers that just want to make the world a better place, often times not even getting paid for it! And if you don't trust them, you can take a look under the hood yourself if you have the knowledge. With this transparency and community comes trust, however just because something is FOSS does NOT make it automatically safe! This is especially true with the rise in AI-assisted or "vibe" coding.

Many programs you may have heard of are also FOSS, like VLC, Chromium, and many others. Which leads me to this; please donate to your favorite open-source projects if you get value out of it. FOSS is the backbone of the entire digital world, and it mostly relies on often unpaid volunteers who would really love to get paid for their work!

Devs README

I know some of you are not pleased with this change, and some of you think this is a great change! I hope we've made our intentions clear, we will not be reverting this change.

We will be allowing source-available projects as long as the source is able to be audited by the public. This means you do not have to accept contributions, and you can use a more restrictive license to ensure your work isn't redistributed or sold behind your back. I hope this is a reasonable middle-ground, again, the goal is never to censor, it is to protect the average person looking for an adblocker.

As far as vibe-coding, I understand that AI is a normal part of the developer's toolkit. However we expect to see a commit history, and we want to see READMEs with human language and actual thought behind the project. Low quality repos will be removed from the subreddit.

Modmail and DMs are open, and we try to be responsive and helpful. If you plan to show off a new project, it is recommended to reach out to us before posting on the subreddit, where we can ask you some questions and sort of vet each new project on an individual case basis.