Which one is recommended? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Are there better alternatives?

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@Philo@lemmy.ml
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TrackerControl is a ripoff of NetGuard.

Einar
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Does NetGuard show me the same information TrackerControl does and vice versa?

@Philo@lemmy.ml
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Not exactly. TC added the ability to block trackers. NG can easily do that by using a hosts file. I used to use the file by OSID but the Hagezi files https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists#readme Are much better.

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