Blocky DNS Ad-Blocker 2026: Lightweight Pi-hole Alternative

Disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. If you sign up through them, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Most DNS ad-blockers fall into two camps: the heavyweight (Pi-hole with its web dashboard, PHP backend, and dependency on FTL) and the bare-bones (a single hosts file slapped into dnsmasq). Blocky sits in that sweet spot between them — a Go binary, a single config file, and DNS blocking that supports DoH, DoT, DoQ, and DoH3 out of the box. ...

July 9, 2026 · 4 min · PrivacyGuard