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Acrylic DNS Proxy vs hBlock: catalog facts
Acrylic DNS Proxy	hBlock
Free Free and released as open source.	Free Free to download and use.
Windows	Linux, Command line
Hosts file with wildcard and regular expression support Caching speeds up repeated name lookups	Single portable POSIX shell script Combines several blocklist sources
Windows only Configured through text files rather than a graphical interface	Only protects the machine whose hosts file it writes No per-app or per-request control
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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