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home-dns-adblock

🏠 Home DNS ad-blocker for Chinese apps (红果短剧/番茄小说) — works at home AND away via Tailscale. 198 precise rules, zero false positives. 家庭 DNS 广告拦截,在家/出门都能用

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Details

External ID
1405517353
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
home-dns-adblock
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Oct. 5, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
52
Upvotes percentile
0.7456021650879567
Tags
ad-blocker, adblock, adguard, chinese, dns, dnsmasq, ios, pihole, privacy, self-hosted, tailscale, wireguard
Fetched at
Oct. 9, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Updated at
Oct. 9, 2026, 1:02 a.m.

Enrichment

Niche
developer networking and privacy tools
Vertical
Security
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
home dns ad blocker for chinese mobile apps
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes This consists of curated DNS blocklists (hosts/AdGuard format) configured on an existing DNS server (like AdGuard Home or Pi-hole) paired with standard Tailscale routing instructions.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 86 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #21 of 87 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.

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