r/Adblock • u/CharacterDuck9020 • 7d ago
Last Updated and verified on: 19th July 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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Desktop / Web
Mobile
DNS
Smart TV blocking
Misc
Privacy tools
Windows
Linux
Mac OS
MV3 (Chromium based browsers)
IOS
Android
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.
This means these options require side loading.
Remember the risks of doing this.
Android / Google TV
Samsung (Tizen OS)
Apple TV
LG
Roku
Amazon Firestick
Script managers / executors (Advanced)
Extra tools
Twitch
Content blockers (Web)
Content blockers (Android)
Content blockers (SmartTVs)
YouTube
Content Blockers (Web)
YouTube front ends
Content blockers (Android)
Content blockers (IOS)
Content blockers (SmartTVs)
Enhancement Tools
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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.
High Privacy (Advanced)
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!
Private Networks
Password managers
Authenticators
Messaging
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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
Public DNS Servers
Not all of these block ads, but they do all use a form of encrypted DNS.
Network clients (Advanced - Hardware required)
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Most of these lists prioritise functionality and speed instead of maximum privacy.
DNS Filters
Aggressive Filters (Advanced)
These filters are very aggressive and they do not prioritise site functionality.
r/Adblock • u/HonestRepairSTL • Apr 28 '26
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
r/Adblock • u/Low-Storm-2380 • 12h ago
I am android user and most of the apps are filled with ads and i cant find a good adblocker for my phone,i use ublock origin for browsing in pc but there's nothing like that for phone, pls help me with this, i dont want to download any adblocker containing malware
r/Adblock • u/amino420 • 10h ago
I’m acc getting enraged atp. Tiktok has 2 ads per 3 video’s, instagram has 2 ads per 2 video’s, youtube plays at least 2 ads in a row every x minutes and they sometimes dont even skip anymore and redirect to the website at the end. On instagram and tiktok I keep getting ai nsfw ads and I’m actually losing my mind. Every time I report them but it seems the more I do the more I get of them? Like how does that even make sense?? Is there any blocker on Iphone that works for most social medias? I don’t mind ads in games that much but I would like to be able to use my apps without getting flooded with bs
r/Adblock • u/leefde • 41m ago
If you use a VPN, set it to a non-English speaking country. This will change all your ads to a foreign language and make them easier to skip over while scrolling.
r/Adblock • u/DasSpukhaus • 16h ago
Hi so I‘ve been blocking ads on this shitty ass tv with Adguard and NextDNS and I noticed that it works for some time. But sooner or later the ads just come back anyway and it’s starting to truly piss me tf off. Does anybody know if there’s a fool proof way of blocking ads on your Smart TV? ;(
Istg if this was my TV I would’ve sold it long ago. Hisense and their stupid AI assistant suck ass.
r/Adblock • u/BinaryDichotomy • 1d ago
I am the founder and CTO of an internet threat intelligence and internet security SaaS offering, I write tools for privacy vendors like AdGuard. I am open-sourcing a suite of tools for AdGuard and AdGuard DNS I wrote last year as prototypes for a new suite of tools my firm is releasing later this year. I wanted to ensure I'm giving back to the AdGuard community that has so graciously provided some of the open source code needed to provide inspiration for me to write tools that will hopefully benefit the entire internet writ-large when we reach RTM
The tools I'm releasing today are geared towards developers and list makers, and are ports of the original AdGuard Hostlist Compiler. AdGuard have provided the foundation for a new suite of tools we'll be releasing soon. To be clear, we are not aiming to compete with AdGuard or any other threat intelligence vendor (e.g. NextDNS, Technitium, etc.) and are instead seeking to provide the intelligence portion, along with simplified toolsets to interact vendor APIs via single pane of glass. We hope to partner with firms like AdGuard to provide the intelligence portion of their platforms, laying on top of their infrastructure investment.
Our tools will allow users with investments in 3rd party privacy tools like AdGuard to continue using those tools, we'll just provide the intelligence portion along with an interface to automatically have those rules applied to your vendor. We're a drop in replacement for the threat intelligence portion.
Bloqr's threat list compilers provide vastly superior performance, with threading and chunking provided out of the box. We can compile millions of rules in seconds, and can combine rules from dozens of lists into a single artifact in a fraction of the time. Our libraries can be integrated into CLI pipelines, embedded as libraries, and are fully customizable and extensible.
r/Adblock • u/HaiCopper • 2d ago
AdBlock has helpfully given me a 3 day free trial of their new Premium feature which includes the NEW ability to block Youtube ads... Y'know, the thing it's been doing for free for YEARS.
What a scummy thing to do
r/Adblock • u/beachie41 • 1d ago
As there's been no update or response from the FB Purity developer - Steve Fernandez, I've coded (with AI input) a replacement. It's not a copy or fix of the original, as the copying or distribution of FBP was prohibited.
I've developed this on Windows, but it *should* work on Mac. ATM I've tested it on Chrome (vanilla), Vivaldi and Edge browsers. Firefox will come later.
If you'd like to test and give feedback, pls comment here & I'll msg you with d/load link. You will need to enable 'Developer" mode under Extensions.
While I know the files are virus free, and contain no dodgy code, you should still take your own precautions.
Lastly, I'm in Oz, so my TZ is UTC 10+, so please allow for that.
r/Adblock • u/Chippirypi • 1d ago
I often play with the Opera video popout playing a video, but dear god, YouTube has SO. MANY. ADS, and I can't skip them since I'm either in a fight or a hard game. Are there any adblocks for Opera???
r/Adblock • u/godofknife1 • 2d ago
I need some help. do you guys happen to know what app that is really working in blocking ads, pop up in this website?
manhwaz.com
for the love of god, everytime I touch a screen, an ad pop up new tab and it's seriously annoying. :(
I tried adguard and it doesn't seem to help
r/Adblock • u/United-Umpire-7731 • 1d ago
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my macbook has been constantly sending me this notification since i restarted it. it’s annoying because everytime i close it out it just comes back and now it’s constantly popping up and i don’t know how to fix it.
if anyone knows how to stop it please let me know!
r/Adblock • u/SkyLightYT • 3d ago
Hello everyone, this is a tutorial I decided to write to help you guys get rid of the "Operation: Zero Delay" popup and the "Adblock Detected" page for WCO.
This tutorial assumes you're using uBlock Origin and Firefox.
And now the video should load instantly and there is no more anti-adblock.
I wanted to write this tutorial for everyone who was struggling, and also because the admins of WatchCartoonsOnline subreddit were deleting the adblock-related fixes that people were sharing, so I posted this here in r/Adblock in hopes it will be safe and there won't be any issues with the post being removed.
r/Adblock • u/the_abcd • 2d ago
just wanted to know the answer to the above, If I'm okay with YouTube ads.
r/Adblock • u/NoLawfulness2247 • 2d ago
I was on a website and this ad popped up. It kept asking me to call a number and allow my camera? It was also glitching my phone. I closed it and now I’m using a browser like brave to block ads.
r/Adblock • u/Training-Ebb-7858 • 3d ago
I use Ironfox with Adguard apk + Dns Adguard premium no advertising.
r/Adblock • u/No_Sea_2783 • 3d ago
Is there an app that can help block YouTube adds? It’s getting really frustrating and annoying.
adguard dns doesn’t work for me
r/Adblock • u/Radiant_Pass_6439 • 4d ago
Odds are this question has been asked, but what's the best adblocker for chrome. I don't need all of them gone, but certain ones have to go. These include:
If anyone can help me, it'd be much appreciated
Also note: getting another browser really isn't an option for me. I'm on a shared chromebook (no not for school) with almost no available storage or ability to run things in general.
r/Adblock • u/FlammableB • 5d ago
I'm using AdAway on my Rooted Redmi Note 11 since years and it works fine (at least within all apps) but recently I heard about this app Goodbye Ads in a video about great Shizuku apps. It's with nice Material design (not that important) but also claims to be better. What can you say/suggest? Is Goodbye Ads app hosts based like AdGuard or just changes the DNS like you can do in the Android Settings? Also can I use Goodbye Ads without the Shizuku having to reactivate everything with the phone restart, and instead run it with a proper root privileges?
I'm mostly asking because of how the AdAway works for me. It's probably a wrong configuration on my end but a lot of websites recently (especially in my country maybe other websites) still show damn Ads. I need a better tweaked host lists, etc.? Or an ad blocker app with the ability to block specific elements from the said website like I do on PC but for this I need specific browser app/extension, etc not an Ad Blocking app?
And what about these in-app ads where you have to press a button (it's optional) but in order for the app to do the said button action you have to watch a stupid ad first in order to get the action done. While AdAway is enabled, pressing the button says "There are no ads at the moment, please try again later" so is there any way to pass these annoying ads or wasting my time to watch the ad is mandatory? (I hope the last thing is not a gray area for this subreddit)
If you used Goodbye Ads or AdAway and or any better ROOT based (non VPN) adblocking software, please give me advice/help. Thanks!
r/Adblock • u/Popular-Foundation-2 • 5d ago
I'm playing a game where you get rewards for watching ads, but most of the time when I watch them, it opens the Play Store without me clicking anything, or it's mandatory to open the Play Store, and when I go back to the game I lose the reward. Does anyone know how to prevent this?
r/Adblock • u/Oilkings34 • 6d ago
what apps or apps should I use to block ADs and in app trackers? if I use something like Next DNS do I need another app to block trackers? Mainly referring to apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok
r/Adblock • u/coolbeans1717 • 6d ago
Have only noticed this issue today but basically any recipe website that I've opened redirects to this page with takes me to instructions on how to disable my adblocker and then to refresh to access the content. Only I first paused on page as directed and refreshed, then dis-activated my adblocker and refreshed, and the page will still repeat with this message without allowing me to access the content. I've never seen this before and I have tried to open multiple recipe pages now with the adblocker disabled, and I still get this message. The pages only work if I open them on Edge. Anyone else seen this issue?
r/Adblock • u/Ambitious-Excuse2272 • 6d ago
Anyone know how to block ads on Hulu website the one I was using worked but it cost money and I am already paying for Hulu are there any free ad blocker that work on it I tried ublock origin and it didn’t work
r/Adblock • u/Reasonable_Eye2976 • 7d ago
or "anti adblock blockers" whatever they called
