Top 15 Stands Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Change the way you experience the web and stand up for what you believe in: Block ads and online trackers for much cleaner and private browsing. Let just a few ads appear on every site - and the ads will also sponsor the charity you choose to support.

# KEY BENEFITS #
· Block the most annoying ads, including: autoplay video ads, youtube ads, expanding ads, interstitial page ads, overlay ads.
· Block pop-up ads and pop-unders no matter where you click on the page.
· Protect your privacy: Stop web tracking from thousands of third-parties.
· Support a charity of your choice without spending a dime.
· More blocking options: you can configure Stands to block Facebook ads, Webmail ads, Search ads, and more.
· Control your experience: You decide how many ads are sponsoring websites and charities.
· Protects from malware sometimes found in advertising.
· Load pages much faster: Sites always load first, then ads (if any). ...

1. µMatrix

µMatrix Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.µMatrix: A point-and-click matrix-based firewall, with many privacy-enhancing tools.µMatrix put you in full control of where your browser is allowed to connect, what type of data it is allowed......

2. Domain Whitelist

Domain Whitelist Ultimate blocker which says no to every network packet until you explicitly allow it.By default Domain Whitelist blocks everything. Everything, really. It's up to you to build your very customized whitelist of domains you trust. Everything else is blocked and well kept out of your browser.It's AdBlock the other way......

3. Domain Blocker

Domain Blocker Domain blocker helps you hide ads, avoid tracking, load pages faster, fight procrastination...Video guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBj7Bk0KVd4 - Hide ads - by blocking advertisement domains you disable the display of some of those pervasive ads.- Avoid tracking - by blocking tracking domains you prevent the services to acquire information about your......

4. uBlock

uBlock Enjoy a faster, cleaner web.uBlock enhances your browsing experience, efficiently blocking any clutter and overhead disturbing your experience.Built for performance, uBlock is also potent and effective — from built-in ad-blocking and privacy-protection filter lists and the ability to add your own to advanced Dynamic Filtering.......

5. BlockBear

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6. Privacyfix

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7. TrackerScan

TrackerScan TrackerScan shows you what companies may be using or collecting information about your activities and interests as you use different websites, how they promise promise to handle your information and how you can opt-out.With TrackerScan you can monitor privacy while you surf. Click on the eye from any page and......

8. AdBlock

AdBlock Your favorite feature in Mozilla Firefox finally comes to Google Chrome , Safari and Opera ! Block all advertisements on all web pages. Your browser is automatically updated with additions to the filter: just click Install, then visit your favorite website and see the......

9. Disconnect

Disconnect Disconnect was founded in 2011 by former Google engineers and a consumer- and privacy-rights attorney. We develop award-winning, user-friendly privacy and security software in San Francisco, California. Disconnect exists to help solve an important social issue and our founding principles are reflected in the way we run the company. We’re......

10. Adblock Fast

Adblock Fast Just as webpages grew bloated with ads, so too have ad blockers grown bloated with little-used filtering rules and features that sap their would-be speed and hog your computer or device’s disk space, CPU cycles, and memory. Adblock Fast runs a mere 7 optimized filtering rules to accelerate pages 8x......

11. ScareMail

ScareMail ScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This “story” acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM......

12. CatBlock

CatBlock In 2014, Michael Gundlach (the creator of the AdBlock extension) discontinued his pay-monthly "CatBlock" extension, that let users replace ads online with cats (or any other image from Flickr).As he open-sourced the code, a few contributors to the project decided to fork the code and continue maintenance of......

13. Magic Actions for YouTube

Magic Actions for YouTube [Be careful during the installation: Forum ]Magic actions for YouTube is a wonderful enhancement to any video viewing experience. Everything you love, now in one App! AutoHD, Ad Block, Cinema mode with Dynamic backlight, Mouse Wheel for Volume Control, Snapshot from playing video, Cool Day/Night toggle switch to......

14. AdRemover for Google Chrome

AdRemover for Google Chrome One of the most popular Chrome extensions to remove unwanted ads and malware. Removes ads on every site! Have Fun.AdRemover for Chrome! Block all advertisements on all web pages, even Facebook, Youtube, and Hulu.It works automatically: Just click "Add to Chrome," then visit your favorite website and see the ads......

15. avast! Online Security

avast! Online Security - Collects phishing site info from all our users and warns if you visit them.- You can create your own trusted pages list.- Site content rating system.- When combined with our Avast antivirus software, you'll have access to the SiteCorrect feature, which automatically redirects you to legitimate URLs when they......