DubyaDude / VRChat-Analytics-Blocker

A collection of easy to use tools to block analytics collection tailored towards VRChat players

VRChat-Analytics-Blocker

Data collection is something users should have the ability to deny. This tool will help with some aspects of that for VRChat.

How to block analytics

Method 1 (Run the executable):

• Run the latest release of VRChat-Analytics-Blocker.exe as admin.
  • The executable does Method 2 automatically, adding to Windows's 'hosts' file.

Method 2 (Manually edit Windows's 'hosts' file):

• Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
• Edit the 'hosts' file with a text editor as admin.
  • If it doesn't already exist, create a file called 'hosts' (with no file extension).
• Copy and paste everything here on a new line in the file.
• Save it!

Method 3 (Adding the blocklist to existing adblocking tools):

• Add the following link to your adblocking tool:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DubyaDude/VRChat-Analytics-Blocker/refs/heads/master/blocklist/hosts.txt

How to fix VRChat's SDK after blocking analytics

You may run into errors in the VRChat SDK while analytics are blocked.

• Import this unity package into your project