AdGuard Alternatives for Linux

AdGuard is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Portmaster, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to AdGuard and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to AdGuard are NextDNS, Pi-hole, Privoxy and Irbis Zen.

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  1. Portmaster icon
     200 likes

    Free, open-source privacy suite monitoring all network activity, blocking unwanted connections, using trusted filter lists for ads and malware, enforcing DNS-over-TLS, providing custom app and global rules, and supporting advanced privacy management.

    40 Portmaster alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. NextDNS icon
     180 likes

    NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.

    147 NextDNS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • UC Browser
    • Vivaldi
    • Google Chrome
    • UniFi Network
    • Safari
    • Yandex Browser
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • OpenWrt
    • Opera
    • Alpine Linux
    • pfSense
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • DD-WRT
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  3. Pi-hole icon
     199 likes

    Blocks ads for all connected devices at the DNS layer without client setup. Provides web control, in-app ad and tracker blocking, DHCP and API support, regex filtering, privacy modes, audit logs, and long-term query analytics for network management.

    45 Pi-hole alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Raspberry Pi
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    The Web interface shows how many ads were blocked, a query log, and more.
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  4. Privoxy icon
     60 likes

    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.

    61 Privoxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Irbis Zen icon
     19 likes

    Zen is an open-source system-wide ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It works by setting up a proxy that intercepts HTTP requests from all applications, and blocks those serving ads, tracking scripts that monitor your behavior, malware, and other...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. husi icon
     3 likes

    Husi is a non-professional and recreational proxy tool integration for the weird beliefs and free software spirit!

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Obtainium
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  7. Privaxy icon
     3 likes

    Privaxy is the next generation tracker and advertisement blocker. It blocks ads and trackers by MITMing HTTP(s) traffic.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. hBlock icon
     11 likes

    hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file (alternative formats are also supported) that prevents your system from connecting to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Homebrew
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  9. TinyProxy icon
     10 likes

    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    29 TinyProxy alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. Web Safety for Squid Proxy (aka qlproxy) is an ICAP web filtering server that integrates with Squid proxy installed in your network, which provides rich web and content filtering platform to sanitize Internet traffic.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. Ads Killer icon
     2 likes

    Ads Killer is easy to use and powerful ad blocker for Google Chrome, Opera and Chromium based browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Chromium
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