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AdGuard Blog
Company blog · adguard.com/en/blogsecurity
AdGuard Blog is the company blog at adguard.com, writing about security. Since 2015, 171 different Hacker News readers have linked it 239 times, most often “AdGuard DNS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly mention AdGuard as an ad blocker and link its blog for posts on browser extension changes, such as Chrome's Manifest V3 and Safari content blocker limits, and its DNS 2.0 open-sourcing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AdGuard is the best way to get rid of annoying ads and online tracking and protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing fast, safe and ad-free
Most-linked posts?
- AdGuard DNS22 people · 31 mentions · first linked 2017-01-25
- AdGuard – Free DNS AdBlocker9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2015-12-07
- /en/adguard-android/overview.html7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-01-09
- Chrome Manifest V3 is looming over us. Where do we stand?7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-11-08
- /en/adguard-ios-pro/overview.html7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-05-20
- AdGuard Home – Network-wide software for any OS6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-08-09
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-23
- Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers from Chromapocalypse5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-02-18
- AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-07-20
- /en/welcome.html5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-04-23
What Hacker News says?
Chrome didn't remove ad-block entirely, they deprecated an API that allows direct control; extensions now have to load filters into the browser itself, which will do the blocking. Safari actually did the same recently[1], so it's not an alternative if you dislike this move by Chrome. The only difference seems to be the limit of rules (30k for Chrome vs 50k for Safari, whereas some lists used by uBO have over 75k). […
Comment linking /en/blog/legacy-safari-extensions.html
on “Switch from Chrome to Firefox”Submitted Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown as a story · 736 points
HN discussionI've been a happy user of Adguard for over 5 years, on all my devices, so I am luckily unaffected by this. So far it seems to be the only general solution that can inject cosmetic filters into network requests while blocking on a request (not dns-only) level. https://adguard.com/en/blog/mv2-extensions-no-longer-alterna...
Comment linking /en/blog/mv2-extensions-no-longer-alternatives.html
on “uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store”Submitted EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers as a story · 661 points
HN discussionI recently switched to Wipr [0]. It’s dead simple to use, and will auto update its filter lists in the background. It’s a one time purchase, not a subscription. Adguard [1] is a decent free option. I also use a Pi-hole [2] on my network. That blocks ads in apps (not in the browser) like Letterboxd for example. [0] https://kaylees.site/wipr.html [1] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html [2] https://pi-h…
Comment linking /en/adguard-safari/overview.html
on “In 2024, please switch to Firefox”Submitted The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool as a story · 505 points
HN discussionthanks. I will check this out. is AdGuard also a similar approach ? https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdGuard
Comment linking /en/welcome.html
on “Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics”Submitted Ad blocking is under attack (2017) as a story · 367 points
HN discussionYou don't need an Apple account to install an adblocker. You just install it from here https://adguard.com/en/adguard-mac/overview.html And you don't have to pay for it, just close the ask.
Comment linking /en/adguard-mac/overview.html
on “Apple's Software Quality Crisis”Submitted AdGuard publishes the first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 as a story · 340 points
HN discussionInteresting... https://adguard.com/kb/adguard-for-safari/solving-problems/r... Sounds like I should direct a portion of my ire toward Apple on this.
Comment linking /kb/adguard-for-safari/solving-problems/rule-limit/
on “uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari”Submitted Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store as a story · 310 points
HN discussionOther similar filter lists: EasyList Cookie: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist-cookie.t... AdGuard Annoyances filter: http://adguard.com/filters.html#annoyances (There is also "Fanboy’s Annoyance", but it blocks more than just cookie notifications. For example, it blocks social media share buttons which I use a lot. So I don't use it.)
Comment linking /filters.html
on “No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body”Submitted YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future? as a story · 212 points
HN discussion> I searched and came across a list on Tom's Hardware of the best ad blockers of 2017 For some reason Tom's article is missing Pi-Hole [1] and AdGuard [2] which are network and computer-level ad blockers respectively. Both are good for people who regularly use multiple browsers on multiple devices since there isn't any need to install an ad blocker extension for each one then. [1] https://pi-hole.net [2] https://adg…
Comment linking /
on “Insane state of today's advertising part 3”Submitted AdGuard DNS: A Privacy-Oriented DNS Server as a story · 196 points
HN discussionAdGuard Pro, the paid version, uses the VPN interface to block ads. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-ios-pro/overview.html
Comment linking /en/adguard-ios-pro/overview.html
on “Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default”Submitted Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson as a story · 186 points
HN discussionAdGaurd looks like a Safari content blocker and not a VPN to me. https://adguard.com/en/adguard-ios/overview.html
Comment linking /en/adguard-ios/overview.html
on “Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default”Submitted Unimania: I Need Your Facebook Data, Location, and Your Browsing History as a story · 80 points
HN discussionYou mean a public Dns server with ad blocking? https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html Note that obviously since you are sharing all your dns requests with them, it's terrible for privacy... :'(
Comment linking /en/adguard-dns/overview.html
on “Mmm, Pi-hole”Submitted Adguard Letter of Support to Quad9 as a story · 78 points
HN discussionWonder how this compares to AdGuard[0] [0] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html EDIT: They have a lot more products than just DNS (if you poke around the site)
Comment linking /en/adguard-dns/overview.html
on ““This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server””Submitted AdGuard Pro for iOS will be discontinued due to Apple's policy as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI use AdGuard - https://adguard.com/
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on ““This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server””Submitted AdGuard scanned the entire web in search of hidden trackers as a story · 44 points
HN discussionhttps://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html
Comment linking /en/adguard-dns/overview.html
on “LuLu: An open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing connections”Submitted Mozilla removes ad-tracking code from Firefox as a story · 35 points
HN discussionDoing some more digging, apparently AdGuard just created a URL tracking filter a couple of weeks ago that we should be able to enable in either the AdGuard or Ublock Origin (or perhaps other ad-blocking) Firefox mobile addons eventually: https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-url-tracking-filter.html Or you can manually add the filter now. After installing the Ublock Origin addon in firefox mobile, I clicked on the 3 d…
Comment linking /en/blog/adguard-url-tracking-filter.html
on “ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs”Submitted Meta, aided by Apple and Google takes down an ad-free Instagram clone as a story · 34 points
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