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CLUSTER TRACKERS-BLOCKS-ADVERTISEMENTS · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-05-29

Ad & tracker blockers

This cluster consists of five command-line and system utilities that block ads, trackers, and malicious activity by modifying the hosts file or intercepting network traffic. Their dated entries start in 2017-05 and appear about every 2-3 years (2020-07, 2023-09, 2025-09, 2026-03), indicating sparse but steady introductions rather than a concentrated wave. Traction leaders by activity signal are adguard-cli-nightly-bin, adguard-tray, and privaxy-bin, all currently with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAY 2017: 1JUL 2020: 1SEP 2023: 1SEP 2025: 1MAR 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1
MAY 2017SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01adguard-cli-nightly-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that blocks ads, trackers, and malicious websites by filtering network requests.
  2. 02firewall-blocker0★1 mo—hobbyWeb application that filters and blocks network traffic by IP, port, protocol, and domain with configurable rules and logging.
  3. 03adguard-tray0★24 daysliveopen sourceSystem tray utility that displays the status of a command-line ad blocker and lets users control it.
  4. 04privaxy-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceBlocks advertisements and trackers by intercepting and modifying HTTP(S) network traffic.
  5. 05hostsctl0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceSystem utility that blocks advertisements, trackers, and malicious activity by managing the system hosts file.
  6. 06autohosts0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that automatically updates the hosts file to block browser telemetry and web trackers on Linux and macOS.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.