Pi-hole
DNS
Blackhole for Internet advertisements with a GUI for management and monitoring.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
EUPL-1.2
Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
Maza ad blocking is an open-source dns project, with 1.9k GitHub stars and a health score of 45/100. It committed 7 times in the last twelve months across 3 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: Apache-2.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-14 |
| Days since last commit | 3 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 2 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 7 |
| Months with activity | 3 of 12 |
| Last release | None detected |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Category | DNS |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Maza ad blocking is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.
Slowing down. Maza ad blocking recorded 7 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 3 of those months and 2 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-14. No recent release was detected. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
Maza ad blocking is published under Apache-2.0. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
6 open-source implementations, 5 of them actively maintained, led by Pi-hole at 60k stars. Saturation score 42/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
DNS
Blackhole for Internet advertisements with a GUI for management and monitoring.
DNS
User-friendly ads & trackers blocking DNS server.
Authoritative/recursive DNS server with ad blocking functionality.
DNS
Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features (alternative to Pi-hole).
DNS
Ad-blocking DNS resolver with DNSSEC-validating recursive resolution, DoH/DoT/Oblivious DoH, ephemeral overrides, and local service domains, in a single Rust binary (alternative to Pi-hole, AdGuard Ho
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