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

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