DNS & ad blocking

Blocky

Fast DNS proxy and ad blocker in a single binary.

open source self-hostable Blocky project · ?

Configuration-file driven, tiny, with DNS-over-HTTPS upstreams.

Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “DNS & ad blocking” with it

How you can run it

Way	Where the data lives	Price basis	Verdict
Host it myself	your own server or hardware	free	green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure.

Facts

Company / project	Blocky project (jurisdiction unknown)
Licence	Apache-2.0
Self-hosting footprint	64 MB RAM · 0.1 vCPU · 0 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people
Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data)	6,912 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Go, Docker
Provenance	curated, verified 2026-09-04

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