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Adblock Plus
Who runs Adblock Plus, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest ad blocker alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- getadblock.com
Measured from Adblock Plus’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Adblock Plus01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus adblockplus.org
Adblock Plus, the most popular ad blocker on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Android and iOS. Block pop-ups and annoying ads on websites like Facebook and YouTube.
Wikidata: content filtering and ad blocking browser extension
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Adblock Plus tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Adblock Plus’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Adblock Plus
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Adblock Plus, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Surf the web without annoying pop ups and ads!
AdBlock is one of the most popular ad blockers worldwide with more than 60 million users on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge as well as Android. Use AdBlock to block all ads and pop ups. AdBlock can also be used to help protect your privacy by blocking trackers. AdBlock blocks ads on Facebook, YouTube, and all other websites. Download it for free now!
Very close - 02
Ghostery Ad Blocker | Best Free Ad Blocker & Privacy Tool | Ghostery
Take back control of your online privacy with Ghostery. The #1 privacy suite that gives you the power to block ads, stop trackers, and much more.
Very close - 03
AdGuard Ad Blocker — block ads, popups, and trackers
AdGuard is the best way to get rid of annoying ads and online tracking and protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing fast, safe and ad-free
Very close - 04
uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad blocker extension | Unofficial website
Block ads, trackers, pop-ups, and page clutter with uBlock Origin, a free ad blocker. Compare uBlock Origin Lite, browser support, filters, and permissions.
Very close - 05
Privacy Badger | Fight hidden tracking with EFF
open source privacy-enhancing web browser extension
Very close - 06
The browser that puts you first | Brave
The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.
Very close - 07
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
ad- and tracker-blocking application
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Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
Very close - 09
Opera Web Browser | Faster, Safer, Smarter | Opera
Faster, safer and smarter than default browsers. Fully-featured for privacy, security, and so much more. Get the faster, better Opera browser for free.
Very close - 10
Firefox: The fast, private browser that keeps you safe — Firefox.com
The independent browser that has your back. Firefox blocks trackers, has a free built-in VPN, puts you in control of AI, and never sells your personal data.
Very close - 11
Freedom | App, Website & Internet Blocker
Freedom is the app and website blocker that syncs across Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chrome. Schedule focus sessions, block distractions, and reclaim time.
Very close - 12
UC Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
UC Browser is a fast and safe web browser for PC, Mac, and mobile. Download now to enjoy a clean, ad-free browsing experience with built-in VPN for enhanced privacy and security!
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Cốc Cốc Browser | The web browser for Vietnamese people
Cốc Cốc web browser has built-in Adblocker, Video Downloader, and PiP on all platforms. Download Cốc Cốc for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.
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All-in-One Cybersecurity Protection: Antivirus, VPN & Scam Guard
All-in-one cybersecurity software for all your devices. Malwarebytes provides smarter antivirus, VPN, and scam detection for you and your family.
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Free web proxy and a cutting-edge online proxy | CroxyProxy
CroxyProxy is a cutting-edge secure web proxy service. Use it to access your favorite websites and web applications: as a Facebook or YouTube proxy. It is free, you can try this online proxy right now!
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DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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VPN service that's fast, reliable, & effective | Windscribe
Protect your privacy, stream global content, and mask your location with the best VPN service. Enjoy fast speeds and servers in over 135 locations.
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NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
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.
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ClickCease™ - Block Click Fraud on Google, Meta & Microsoft
ClickCease™ detects and blocks click fraud on your Google, Meta and Microsoft Ads campaigns. Automatically block competitors and bots from wasting your PPC ads budget.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Adblock Plus’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Adblock Plus uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Adblock Plus adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 30 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Adblock Plus’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080049-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:spf1.adblockplus.org include:_spf.google.com include:s…
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns73.ultradns.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=WscIWU4ciCgJXgNh6k-Z0yJQOD7H1h_N1f3kxsNpLEA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Zendesk · not on adblockplus.org 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on adblockplus.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on adblockplus.org 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on adblockplus.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on adblockplus.org 6/20
- PHP · not on adblockplus.org 6/20
- WordPress · not on adblockplus.org 6/20
- Apple Business · not on adblockplus.org 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on adblockplus.org 6/20
- nginx · not on adblockplus.org 5/20
- jQuery · not on adblockplus.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on adblockplus.org 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on adblockplus.org 4/20
- Stripe · not on adblockplus.org 4/20