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Hosts projects on GitHub

Curated hosts file lists and tools for blocking ads, trackers, and malicious domains.

As of , the most-starred Hosts projects on GitHub are hosts (31.3K stars), GitHub520 (30K stars) and dns-blocklists (27.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 7 Hosts repositories with 163.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was dns-blocklists, with +50 stars in a day.

7Projects
163.2KStars in total
+91Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+50

dns-blocklists

hagezi/dns-blocklists · ★ 27.5K

A set of DNS blocklists that block ads, trackers, telemetry, phishing, malware, scams and other junk domains network-wide. They work for any region and with every common DNS server, ad blocker, and content blocker.

+15

hosts

StevenBlack/hosts · ★ 31.3K

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.

+9

GitHub520

521xueweihan/GitHub520 · ★ 30K

GitHub520 publishes an up-to-date hosts file that maps GitHub's domains to fast, working IPs, fixing the broken images and slow loading that many users hit when browsing GitHub. It requires no software installation - you just update your system's hosts entries.

+6

anti-AD

privacy-protection-tools/anti-AD · ★ 10.9K

anti-AD is a curated ad-blocking and privacy filter list for the Chinese internet, built by merging and deduplicating major hosts/EasyList/adblock lists to block ads, telemetry and tracking domains at the network level.

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7 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.

    31.3K
  2. #2 · 521xueweihan/GitHub520

    GitHub520

    GitHub520 publishes an up-to-date hosts file that maps GitHub's domains to fast, working IPs, fixing the broken images and slow loading that many users hit when browsing GitHub. It requires no software installation - you just update your system's hosts entries.

    30K
  3. #3 · hagezi/dns-blocklists

    dns-blocklists

    A set of DNS blocklists that block ads, trackers, telemetry, phishing, malware, scams and other junk domains network-wide. They work for any region and with every common DNS server, ad blocker, and content blocker.

    27.5K
  1. 4

    SwitchHosts

    27.3Koldj/SwitchHosts · TypeScript

    SwitchHosts is a free, open-source desktop app for managing your hosts file: keep several hosts profiles and switch between them in one click from the main window or system tray.

  2. 5

    hosts

    20.6Kgooglehosts/hosts

    GoogleHosts is a project that provides a hosts file mapping Google and other blocked domains to accessible IP addresses, so Chinese-speaking users can reach these services without DNS censorship interference.

  3. 6

    whistle

    15.7Kavwo/whistle · JavaScript

    Whistle is a cross-platform web debugging proxy built on Node.js — it captures and lets you modify HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, WebSocket and TCP traffic, in the same niche as Charles or Fiddler (both are among its GitHub topics).

  4. 7

    anti-AD

    10.9Kprivacy-protection-tools/anti-AD

    anti-AD is a curated ad-blocking and privacy filter list for the Chinese internet, built by merging and deduplicating major hosts/EasyList/adblock lists to block ads, telemetry and tracking domains at the network level.

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