ublockorigin.com

uBlock Origin

Who runs uBlock Origin, 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 uBlock Origin’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs uBlock Origin

uBlock Origin ublockorigin.com

Block ads, trackers, pop-ups, and page clutter with uBlock Origin, a free ad blocker. Compare uBlock Origin Lite, browser support, filters, and permissions.

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What uBlock Origin 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 uBlock Origin’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to uBlock Origin

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to uBlock Origin, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    getadblock.com English 1 tracker

    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!

    Compare getadblock.com with uBlock Origin →
  2. 02
    Adblock Plus adblockplus.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Adblock Plus | The world's #1 free ad blocker

    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.

    Compare Adblock Plus with uBlock Origin →
  3. 03
    Ghostery ghostery.com English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Ghostery with uBlock Origin →
  4. 04
    Privacy Badger privacybadger.org English No trackers

    Privacy Badger | Fight hidden tracking with EFF

    open source privacy-enhancing web browser extension

    Compare Privacy Badger with uBlock Origin →
  5. 05
    AdGuard adguard.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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

    Compare AdGuard with uBlock Origin →
  6. 06
    Docusaurus docusaurus.io English 1 tracker

    Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content | Docusaurus

    An optimized site generator in React. Docusaurus helps you to move fast and write content. Build documentation websites, blogs, marketing pages, and more.

    Compare Docusaurus with uBlock Origin →
  7. 07
    DuckDuckGo duckduckgo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare DuckDuckGo with uBlock Origin →
  8. 08
    jQuery jquery.com Top 1K English No trackers

    jQuery

    jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

    Compare jQuery with uBlock Origin →
  9. 09
    About Cookies aboutcookies.org Top 10K English 2 trackers

    About Cookies

    A cookie is a very small text file placed on an internet user's hard drive. It is generated by a web page server, which is basically the computer that operates a website.

    Compare About Cookies with uBlock Origin →
  10. 10
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

    Compare Drupal with uBlock Origin →
  11. 11
    Brave brave.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Brave with uBlock Origin →
  12. 12
    SolidJS solidjs.com No trackers

    A declarative, efficient and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

    Compare SolidJS with uBlock Origin →
  13. 13
    Quote Investigator® quoteinvestigator.com English 2 trackers

    Quote Investigator® – Tracing Quotations

    website

    Compare Quote Investigator® with uBlock Origin →
  14. 14
    Svelte svelte.dev English No trackers

    Svelte • Web development for the rest of us

    Web development for the rest of us

    Compare Svelte with uBlock Origin →
  15. 15
    Encyclopedia.com encyclopedia.com English 3 trackers

    Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia

    Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.

    Compare Encyclopedia.com with uBlock Origin →
  16. 16
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

    Compare Open Library with uBlock Origin →
  17. 17
    DaFont dafont.com Top 10K German 2 trackers

    DaFont - Schriftarten zum Download

    Ein Archiv kostenlos herunterladbarer Schriftarten. Durchsuchen Sie nach alphabetischer Reihenfolge, Stil, Autor oder Popularität.

    Compare DaFont with uBlock Origin →
  18. 18
    Angular angular.dev English No trackers

    Home • Angular

    The web development framework for building modern apps.

    Compare Angular with uBlock Origin →
  19. 19
    Vivaldi vivaldi.com English 1 tracker

    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!

    Compare Vivaldi with uBlock Origin →
  20. 20
    CroxyProxy croxyproxy.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    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!

    Compare CroxyProxy with uBlock Origin →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles uBlock Origin’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones uBlock Origin uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what uBlock Origin 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 · 3 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
28 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to uBlock Origin’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

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