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Anti-tracking projects on GitHub

Browser hardening configs and extensions that block trackers and fingerprinting scripts.

As of , the most-starred Anti-tracking projects on GitHub are hosts (31.2K stars), ungoogled-chromium (28K stars) and FreeTube (22.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 8 Anti-tracking repositories with 161.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was helium, with +32 stars in a day.

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161.3KStars in total
+89Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+32

helium

imputnet/helium · ★ 21.6K

Helium is a Chromium-based web browser built for privacy: unbiased ad-blocking out of the box, no bloat and no noise. It is free, open source, and currently in beta.

+16

hosts

StevenBlack/hosts · ★ 31.2K

A community-maintained aggregator that merges many reputable hosts files into one unified blocklist with duplicates removed — the base variant combines adware and malware lists and holds 80,169 entries.

+12

ungoogled-chromium

ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium · ★ 28K

ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium with the dependency on Google web services removed. It keeps the standard Chromium experience and adds privacy, control, and transparency tweaks.

+10

FreeTube

FreeTubeApp/FreeTube · ★ 22.1K

FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind: watch YouTube without ads and without Google tracking you through cookies and JavaScript.

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8 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · StevenBlack/hosts

    hosts

    A community-maintained aggregator that merges many reputable hosts files into one unified blocklist with duplicates removed — the base variant combines adware and malware lists and holds 80,169 entries.

    31.2K
  2. #2 · ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

    ungoogled-chromium

    ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium with the dependency on Google web services removed. It keeps the standard Chromium experience and adds privacy, control, and transparency tweaks.

    28K
  3. #3 · FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

    FreeTube

    FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind: watch YouTube without ads and without Google tracking you through cookies and JavaScript.

    22.1K
  1. 4

    helium

    21.6Kimputnet/helium · C++

    Helium is a Chromium-based web browser built for privacy: unbiased ad-blocking out of the box, no bloat and no noise. It is free, open source, and currently in beta.

  2. 5

    awesome-privacy

    20Kpluja/awesome-privacy · Python

    A curated awesome-list of free, open-source and privacy-respecting alternatives to mainstream services that harvest your data — from mail and messengers to VPNs, browsers and AI.

  3. 6

    nitter

    14.5Kzedeus/nitter · Nim

    A free, open source alternative front-end for Twitter, focused on privacy and performance — it was inspired by the Invidious project. You browse Twitter through a Nitter instance instead of twitter.com.

  4. 7

    user.js

    12.9Karkenfox/user.js · JavaScript

    arkenfox user.js is a community-maintained Firefox configuration template that hardens privacy and security settings, aiming to reduce tracking and fingerprinting as much as possible while trying to keep the browser usable.

  5. 8

    Betterfox

    10.9Kyokoffing/Betterfox · JavaScript

    Betterfox is a curated user.js file of about:config tweaks that makes Firefox more private, secure, and performant without installing third-party code.

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