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Kingpin Browser
Limelick Software
Kingpin browser is a full-featured browser with incognito mode and adblock always turned on. It does not remember history, passwords, or cookies. The browser is using Google search as default (can be changed to DuckDuckGo in settings). It can be used as an additional browser for browsing sensitive content or a browser used for more secure online shopping and banking. Always stay private while browsing sensitive content, dating sites, adult content, health issues, or gifts shopping. Does not store browsing history, passwords, credentials, or cookies. No auto-completion of the URLs, do not worry if someone looks over your shoulder. Reading without ads is much more fun. The ads are blocked on your favorite news websites. No tracking, you will not be followed with ads/recommendations (i.e. Amazon or Youtube recommendations). Hide all your tabs in the blink of an eye with Kingpin button. You can reopen them with a single click, or your 4-digit PIN code.Starting Price: Free -
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AdBlock
AdBlock
Block Chrome ads everywhere you browse! Block pop-ups, autoplay video ads, and ads on Facebook, YouTube, and your favorite sites in the Chrome browser. AdBlock is the most dependable ad blocker for Chrome. Install AdBlock today and enjoy faster browsing and a safer web. AdBlock for Chrome is an ad-blocking browser extension, which means it removes ads from Chrome and provides protection from third-party trackers. In fact, with over 60 million users, AdBlock is the most widely trusted ad blocking extension for Chrome available today. AdBlock is used by millions of folks across the globe to block Chrome ads, improve page load speed, and help protect their privacy. That's because AdBlock for Chrome is simple to use, completely customizable, and provides a dramatic improvement to your online experience.Starting Price: $1 per month -
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Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker
Ghostery
Ghostery is a powerful privacy extension. Block ads, cookies, popups & other trackers. Ghostery counts more than 100+ million downloads worldwide. The browser extension upgrades your browser and supplies full adblock functionality, stops trackers from accessing your personal data, and annoying cookie consent pop-ups. Ghostery has three main components: * Ad-Blocking - blocks all ads on websites you visit including Youtube and Facebook, helping you to focus only on what's important to you. * Anti-Tracking - stops trackers’ ability to collect your personal data, replacing it with random values and anonymizing your identity for data brokers. * Never-Consent - automatically removes intrusive cookie popups and expresses dissent to online tracking. This unequaled feature adds convenience to each website visit and acts like your privacy advocate. Ghostery delivers the online privacy protection our users have come to know and love while minimising the need for customisation.Starting Price: 0 -
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uBlock
uBlock
uBlock is the ideal ad blocker for stopping unwanted ads and speeding up your browsing experience. uBlock will block annoying ads, obnoxious video ads, and intrusive trackers. It also functions as a pop-up blocker and helps protect against some forms of malware. If you’re looking for an ad blocker to remove ads from your Internet experience and help improve your overall online security, then uBlock is the tool for you. uBlock is a fast but powerful tool to help you block annoying ads and speed up your browsing in Safari. uBlock starts blocking ads on millions of websites, including Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify, from the moment it’s installed. You can pause uBlock, allowing ads to appear temporarily when needed, or turn it off entirely on sites where you want to allow ads every time you visit. You can also make sure your filter lists are up-to-date if an ad slips past uBlock.Starting Price: Free -
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SponsorBlock
SponsorBlock
Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy-preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight. To prevent one submission with a lot of votes never being able to be replaced, I decided to use a weighted random distribution based on the equation on the right. This formula makes the first few votes matter a lot more than votes on a submission that already has a lot of votes. This gives newly submitted segments a better chance of being sent out to users to get votes. So, most users will get the best submission, but some users will get lesser votes submissions so that they can either be upvoted or downvoted.Starting Price: Free -
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Block This
Block This
Block This 3.1 is a free and open-source ad blocker for Android that works in all apps and browsers! It provides the additional benefits of malware protection, increased browsing speed and reduction of mobile data traffic. If you are a developer you can find the codebase on GitHub. For any further questions or suggestions, please join our forum. Block all in-app and browser advertisements, including video and audio ads, popup ads, banners, tracking cookies. Block This takes care of your security with its antivirus features! We've included a large list of common malware distributors to keep you safe from viruses. According to our average estimates, by blocking all of the ads on your Android phone, you can save up to 35% of your data plan. Bypass your internet provider censorship and access parts of the web that were previously inaccessible for you. Block This protects your Android phone from malware and blocks all requests to annoying advertising.Starting Price: Free -
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Privacy Badger
EFF
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Privacy Badger is a browser extension that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser. To the advertiser, it’s like you suddenly disappeared. Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge, or configuration by the user; which is produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn’t tracking.Starting Price: Free -
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AppBrain Ad Detector
AppBrain
Find out which of your apps have ads and spyware. Free your phone from potential spyware and ads! This app detects all annoyances of apps installed on your phones, such as push notifications, desktop icon spam ads, and apps with privacy concerns or spyware. It identifies the adware and allows you to then remove the apps that violate your privacy. Helps you to get rid of annoying ad notifications and bookmarks on your desktop. Become aware of what apps have permissions to access your messages or accounts and could thus invade your privacy, or can use services that could cost you money, and help you with their removal. Concerns such as push notifications (both ads and non-ads), putting spam icons on your desktop, and privacy-related concerns such as the ability to access your location, contacts, messages, or accounts. Social SDKs; detect whether apps have SDKs like Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter, and more.Starting Price: Free -
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Adblock Fast
Rocketship
Just as webpages grew bloated with ads, so too have ad blockers grown bloated with little-used filtering rules and features that sap their speed and hog your computer or device’s disk space, CPU cycles, and memory. Adblock Fast executes a mere 7 optimized filtering rules to accelerate pages 8x more but consumes 6x less system resources than other ad blockers do. If Adblock Fast is interfering with the behavior of the page, you can click the button to unblock ads. Your choice will be remembered whenever you return to the site. Adblock Fast is a new, faster ad blocker for desktop computers and mobile browsers.Starting Price: Free -
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hBlock
hBlock
hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file, among other formats, that prevents your system from connecting to them. On our website, you can download the latest build of the default blocklist and you can generate your own by following the instructions on the project page. Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains. hBlock is available in various package managers. Additionally, a system timer can be set to regularly update the host's file for new additions. The default behavior of hBlock can be adjusted with multiple options. Nightly builds of the host's file, among other formats, can be found on the hBlock website. Sometimes you may need to temporarily disable hBlock, a quick option is to generate a hosts file without any blocked domains.Starting Price: Free -
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Roadblock
Roadblock
Roadblock blocks unwanted web content, protects your privacy and security, improves webpage load time, and reduces browsing data usage. Roadblock includes comprehensive and optimized rules for blocking and hiding unwanted web content. You can easily enable the built-in rules to block different types of ads, pop-ups, trackers, social widgets, privacy banners, images, videos, scripts, and more. Custom Rules provide a powerful way to add, manage, and share your own rules. You can add custom rules to block or allow websites or web resources, hide webpage elements, strip cookies from web requests, and force the loading of websites or web resources over a secure connection (https). Blocker Profiles provide a simple way to add and manage multiple profiles with different settings. You can activate profiles on demand, use different settings on different devices, share profiles with family and friends, and do so much more.Starting Price: Free -
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Bluhell Firewall
Diego Casorran
Get a faster browsing experience by blocking nasty web resources using Bluhell Firewall, the lightweight ad-blocker, and the tracking/privacy protector. All we know is the availability of popular AdBlockers lying around, but frankly, these are too bloated with several features and options which most of us don't use beyond the defaults. So, this extension was made for those of us who don't care about all that stuff but do about just getting rid of all the nasty resources being loaded by websites. This is a lightweight extension (ie, 30KB compared to ~700KB of other popular adblockers), which was made with performance in mind. No configurable options, subscriptions, additional features, etc. You can turn the extension on/off at any time by clicking the toolbar button (Fx Desktop) or touching the menu item entry (Fx for Android). Every time a certain resource wants to be loaded we will have to iterate through a list of seven compiled patterns.Starting Price: Free -
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Technitium DNS Server
Technitium
Block ads & malware at DNS level for your entire network! Self host a DNS server for privacy & security. Technitium DNS Server is an open-source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server that can be used for self-hosting a DNS server for privacy & security. It works out-of-the-box with no or minimal configuration and provides a user-friendly web console accessible using any modern web browser. Nobody really bothers about domain name resolution since it works automatically behind the scenes and is complex to understand. Most computer software uses the operating system's DNS resolver that usually queries the configured ISP's DNS server using UDP protocol. This way works well for most people but, your ISP can see and control what website you can visit even when the website employs HTTPS security. Not only that, some ISPs can redirect, block or inject content into websites you visit even when you use a different DNS provider like Google DNS or Cloudflare DNS.Starting Price: Free -
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Webmail Ad Blocker
jasonsavard.com
Removes the ads and sponsored links and squeezes out the empty space left behind by other adblockers to give you more room to write your messages. There are also options to hide various other items on your pages to make it more zen. Blocks annoying ads when you use Gmail, Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail giving you more space for the message. For Gmail users, you can choose to remove the People Widget in the options. Great for parental control to childproof those ads.Starting Price: Free -
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Domain Blocker
Peta Sittek
Helps you hide ads, avoid tracking, load pages faster, fight procrastination. Domain Blocker is written to be as efficient as possible, in terms of speed (CPU) and memory (RAM). The main idea is that there's little meaning to use a predefined blocklist consisting of tens of thousands of rules when you'll ever use only a small percentage of it. In Domain Blocker you build the blocklist as you go along. By blocking advertisement domains you disable the display of some of those pervasive ads. By blocking tracking domains you prevent the services to acquire information about your browsing behavior. By blocking unnecessary domains (requests) you save traffic and make pages loading faster! Just keep Facebook out of the Whitelist and do more! Read and change all your data on the websites you visit, to be able to intercept HTTP requests before they leave your browser. Completely free and with no ads.Starting Price: Free -
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Domain Whitelist
Peta Sittek
Ultimate blocker which says no to every network packet until you explicitly allow it. By default Domain Whitelist blocks everything. Everything. It's up to you to build your very customized whitelist of domains you trust. Everything else is blocked and well kept out of your browser. It's like AdBlock the other way around, completely. By blocking advertisement domains you're free of most of those pervasive ads. By blocking tracking domains you're protected from services that acquire information about your browsing behavior. By blocking unnecessary domains (requests) you save a lot of traffic and make pages load faster! Read and change all your data on the websites you visit to be able to intercept HTTP requests before they leave your browser. Completely free and with no ads.Starting Price: Free -
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Metiix Blockade
Metiix
Block malware, tracking, & ads on every device in your network. Choose a single device, a group, or your entire network. Simple software deployment and configuration. Custom blocklist & exceptions. Blockade is DNS-based server software designed to block third-party tracking software, analytical software, ads and access to sites known to carry malware for all computers and devices on your network that can browse the internet. A single server software license is all that is needed to protect all of the devices (computers, servers, laptops, Chromebooks, handhelds, smart TVs, tablets, phones) connected on your network and across your WI-FI from internet tracking software and ads. Load Blockade directly onto any Windows or Linux computer on your network not currently running DNS services or web services. Blockade keeps advertisements, tracking, and analytical software off of your network.Starting Price: Free -
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Adblock Pro
Adblock Pro
Browse without distractions - block ads, tracking scripts, autoplay videos, popups, redirects and other annoyances. Save data and speed up your Safari. All the extra assets and scripts required for ads or tracking are slowing page loading times and hogging your data.Starting Price: Free -
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Malwarebytes Browser Guard
Malwarebytes
Filters out annoying ads and scams while blocking trackers that spy on you. Download free for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari browsers. Malwarebytes Browser Guard crushes unwanted and unsafe content, giving you a safer and faster browsing experience. Not only that, it is the world’s first browser extension that can identify and stop tech support scams. We take on the bad guys so you don’t have to. Speeds up how fast web pages display by blocking third-party ads and other unwanted content, saving your sanity and bandwidth. Identifies and stops browser lockers, browser hijackers, and other scare tactics tech support scammers use to con you out of money. Puts the hurt on tech support scammers. Blocks third-party ad trackers that follow you around the Internet and target you with the same ads over and over again. Removes annoying ads that often point to the content of questionable value.Starting Price: Free -
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Alternate DNS
Alternate DNS
Alternate DNS offers an affordable, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use to block unwanted ads. If you decide to use Alternate DNS, your client programs will perform all of their DNS lookups using Alternate DNS. Speed up your browsing experience. Improve your security. Browse the internet you expect without the intrusive advertisements. If your ISP is having issues with its DNS service or you would like to take advantage of our DNS level ad-blocker, switching to Alternate DNS will get you back online in just a few quick steps. Alternate DNS actively monitors traffic for any malicious or suspicious queries. By registering an account with us we will monitor your last logged-in IP address. If it matches any traffic flagged by us, we will send you real-time alerts for further investigation. If you want the same ad-free experience on your mobile phone, tablet, or Smart TV, simply set your wifi router's DNS settings to Alternate DNS.Starting Price: Free -
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Avast AntiTrack
Avast
Your online habits, along with your device and browser settings make up your unique digital fingerprint, allowing advertisers to identify you from a crowd of visitors, spam you with targeted advertising, or even use price discrimination to display jacked up prices for everything you’ve been researching, from plane tickets to healthcare or insurance plans. Now your spouse knows about them, too. Your previous searches and visited websites may reappear in your browser at the most inconvenient time, and embarrassing ads for products you’ve already purchased or just searched for can stick around for your entire family to see. The more you browse, the more you give away. Your bank, healthcare provider, even your favorite online shop use data mining to collect and store massive amounts of info on you. All it takes is one data breach to lose it all. You never know who’s going to get their hands on your digital profile, or what they’ll do with it.Starting Price: $53.99 per device per year -
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Adaware Protect
Adaware
Adaware Protect is the all-in-one suite that includes Adaware Safe Browser to increase your online security. Adaware Protect's online security keeps your entire computer safe from suspicious websites. Adaware Protect blocks unsafe sites and lets you see what applications try to access malicious or unknown URLs. With one click, Adaware Protect allows you to block hackers and spyware from accessing your camera and microphone. When it's time to video conference, one quick click and you're ready to go. The Adaware Safe Browser gives you a faster more private way to navigate the web. Block ads for a faster browsing experience. Block cookies and trackers to keep from being tracked. Use our private search to keep your search history hidden. Choose your favorite features to optimize your PC’s performance. Scan and clean unnecessary files and applications on your PC from Adaware Protect. Keeping your computer safe has never been this easy!Starting Price: Free -
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Trend Micro Ad Block One
Trend Micro
Stop seeing annoying ads in Chrome and Safari. Open websites faster. Protect your online privacy and browse the internet more safely. Block online ads to make websites load more quickly and use less memory. Hide the undesirable parts of a web page without disrupting its overall layout. Strip away unwanted ads virtually anywhere you go online. Enjoy a simple and friendly interface after a quick and easy setup process. Block apps from tracking your behavior and transmitting sensitive personal information. Stop seeing all sorts of ads, pop-up messages, and banners on the websites you visit, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and millions of others. Simply drag away whatever you would rather not see, without affecting what matters to you. Easily make web pages look just the way you want. Block apps from tracking your behavior and transmitting sensitive personal information. Effortlessly choose which ones to exempt from ad blocking, so they can still make money by showing ads to you.Starting Price: Free -
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ShieldApps Cyber Privacy Suite
ShieldApps
What you do online and on your computer should be your own business. Yet, in most cases, your personal information & web habits are being tracked constantly by 3rd parties who want to monetize your online behaviors or steal your identity. It takes powerful software to stave off malicious cyber attacks all day, every day. In our increasingly digital world, anyone is an easy target for a cyber attack. We put so much of our personal information online today, making it harder to guard against malicious hacking attempts. Our comprehensive software keeps you and your family safe at all times when using your devices or surfing the web. Cyber Privacy Suite fends off harmful privacy threats and proactively identifies where your information is vulnerable or exposed.Starting Price: $77.90 per 3 devices -
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Arc Search
The Browser Company
Arc Search is the modern, fast, and AI-enabled mobile browsing experience you’ve been waiting for. Features of Arc Search: - Auto-up keyboard to start searching with fewer taps - Always-on ad, tracker, and banner blocking - Browse for Me to summarize many webpages at once and find answers faster - Auto-archive inactive tabs to keep things tidy - Reader mode to minimize distractionsStarting Price: Free -
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DeCloudUs
DeCloudUs
DeCloudUs is a privacy-focused, customizable DNS service designed to enhance online security by blocking ads, trackers, malware, phishing attempts, and malicious sites. It offers users the ability to create multiple custom DNS profiles, allowing for tailored filtering rules and parental controls. The service supports encrypted DNS protocols, including DNSCrypt, DNS over TLS (DoT), and DNS over HTTPS (DoH), ensuring secure and private DNS queries. DeCloudUs operates on self-hosted infrastructure without reliance on third-party cloud services, adhering to a strict zero-logs policy to maintain user privacy. Subscription plans provide access to various DNS servers with different filtering capabilities, catering to diverse user needs. With DeCloudUs, you get access to multiple DNS servers that offer different types and levels of filtering capabilities to suit any use case you have for all of your devices or even the entire home network.Starting Price: $0.49 per month -
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Rethink DNS
Rethink DNS
RethinkDNS is a free and open source application designed to enhance online privacy and security for Android users. It combines a DNS resolver, firewall, and VPN client into a single tool, allowing users to block ads, trackers, malware, and spyware across all apps. The app supports over 190 blocklists, including those used by popular ad blockers like uBlock Origin. By encrypting DNS queries using DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT), RethinkDNS ensures secure and private internet connections. Additionally, it offers a customizable firewall to control internet access on a per-app basis and includes a built-in WireGuard VPN client for encrypting outgoing connections. RethinkDNS is available for download on the Google Play Store and F-Droid. RethinkDNS' goal is to turn Android devices into user agents, something that users can truly control to match their needs and expectations.Starting Price: Free -
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Ad Guardian Plus
Bit Guardian
Ad Guardian Plus is a comprehensive ad-blocking solution that enhances your online experience by eliminating various types of advertisements and safeguarding your privacy. It effectively blocks common ads such as pop-ups and banners, as well as advanced ads including search ads, Facebook ads, YouTube ads, audio and video ads, and social media buttons. Users have the flexibility to select which ad categories to block, tailoring their browsing experience to their preferences. Unlike traditional ad blockers that function solely within specific browsers, Ad Guardian Plus operates at the network level, ensuring seamless integration across all browsers and applications without the need for additional extensions. This native Windows integration not only accelerates web browsing by preventing unwanted content but also conserves internet bandwidth. Beyond ad blocking, Ad Guardian Plus offers robust privacy protection by deactivating online trackers, thereby preventing search engines.Starting Price: $5.25 per month -
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Bit Guardian Firewall
Bit Guardian
Bit Guardian Firewall is a robust security solution designed to provide a safe, secure, and seamless browsing experience. It offers real-time protection against malicious content by blocking unsafe URLs and filtering unwanted websites and applications. The software includes an ad-blocking feature to eliminate distracting and potentially harmful pop-up and banner ads, ensuring uninterrupted browsing. Additionally, Bit Guardian Firewall safeguards user privacy by preventing online tracking, allowing users to connect to their favorite websites without the fear of being traced. For enhanced security, it offers add-on protection with Avira's malware databases, providing an impenetrable layer against online and offline threats. The firewall is compatible with Windows operating systems and is developed by Bit Guardian GmbH, a leading software development company based in Gräfelfing, Germany.Starting Price: Free -
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Shelblock
Audivox
During your online browsing sessions, you are exposed to hundreds of advertisements on the pages you visit. And how annoying is to have an ad pop-up out of nowhere while you are reading something quite interesting or watching a video? Certainly, any computer user requires an ad-blocker. It’s only a matter of choice whether it comes in the form of a browser extension or a desktop application but, if you prefer the latter, Shelblock is a good option. Block ads, trackers and pop-ups Shelblock is a desktop ad-blocker that promises to enhance your browsing experience by blocking ads and website trackers from web browsers and applications. Furthermore, it is capable to detect fraudulent and malicious sites, blocking phishing attempts and implementing a customizable parental control policy to protect the little members of your family. By default, the application blocks both ads and sites detected as malicious, whether they are opened with a browser or by an application.Starting Price: Free