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AdGuard DNS is the company blog at adguard-dns.io, writing about security and systems. Since 2022, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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40mentions?
3recommend?
33HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Rarely recommended · 3 of 36 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link AdGuard DNS pages on its free public DNS addresses and setup profiles for blocking ads and trackers network-wide or per device without installing software. Some recommend the service.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 36 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Create your ad-blocking DNS server that will protect your personal data, prevent tracking and allow you to control access to specific content on the Internet.
Most-linked posts?
- /en/public-dns.html14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2022-08-10
- /en/welcome.html4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-04-02
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-05-13
- /3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-08-29
- Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-14
- /kb/general/dns-providers/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-29
What Hacker News says?
As a satisfied customer, I just recommended their adblockimg DNS on here a few days ago but am happy to do it again. If you really don't want to install anything, at least adblock at the DNS level. https://adguard-dns.io/en/welcome.html
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on “Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today”Submitted Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today as a story · 1816 points
HN discussion> The experience is so awful when I browse on my iPad, instead of my Android phone with Firefox+UBlock. I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads. Most people don’t. Most people who use anything for iOS tend to use things like: - 1Blocker - super full featured, including custom script and css rules. business model is paid software, not ‘acceptable ads’ paying them for placement o…
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on “Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers”Submitted Behind the complaints: Investigation into suspicious pressure on Archive.today as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI use Adguard for Safari Content blocking + NextDNS. Adguard has launched its own DNS based blocker too which I am yet to test. Link: https://adguard-dns.io
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on “Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers”Submitted AdGuard DNS Now Supports Structured DNS Errors as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAdguard provides public DNS servers that can be used for blocking ads on your phone as well, no VPN required: https://adguard-dns.io/kb/general/dns-providers/
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on “Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers”Submitted AdGuard Home v1.0 Beta as a story · 2 points
HN discussionnextdns.io might be an option https://adguard-dns.io/kb/general/dns-providers/ have a list of options that some of them have ad blocker
Comment linking /kb/general/dns-providers/
on “Shutting down our public encrypted DNS”> a configuration page for Pihole in your NAT router's web interface likely isn't coming soon. I hope that changes. In the meantime, the majority of routers do allow you to specify the DNS resolver instead of using whatever it learns via WAN DHCP, so you could put in a filtered public resolver (as opposed to your own Pihole instance) which gives pretty similar results if you don't need to whitelist anything. Plus, y…
Comment linking /en/public-dns.html
on “GitHub notification emails used to send malware”Pi-Hole is brilliant. I set up[1] one few years back and used for over a year. Here are the issues; - When I'm away from home and traveling, if something goes wrong, the Pi-Hole is usually the single source of that error, and is hard to solve by talking to my wife to walkthrough the settings. - A few websites (India in my case), mostly government ones, do not work when Ads are blocked. Try paying LIC Premium or even…
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on “Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster”I used Pi-Hole, then went to NextDNS, then to AdGuard DNS, tinkered with AdGuard Home, and currently testing Control-D. They are all actually pretty good, similar features, and it has become just a matter of personal choice. In all fairness, when I have some time and can invest in decent hardwares, I might go back to AdGuard Home with one of the paid services as backup for travel, and for the other family members. P…
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on “AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server”For the home-gamers without a strong grip of DNS, note that you can't enter a domain name into your resolver fields, you have to use the IPs: 94.140.14.14 94.140.15.15 2a10:50c0::ad1:ff 2a10:50c0::ad2:ff Also, it looks like https://dns.adguard-dns.com/ redirects to https://adguard-dns.io/ which is a paid service for more advanced DNS filtering, a la NextDNS.
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on “AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server”If self-host is your thing, there are blocky [0] or Adguard Home [1]. I self-host DOH using blocky so my Android devices can use it via "Private DNS" that is active on both wifi and cellular. [0] https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/latest/ [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome [2] https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html how to configure
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on “The global surveillance free-for-all in mobile ad data”And AdGuard ... which also blocks ads. Plain DNS: # Default servers # AdGuard DNS will block ads and trackers. IPv4: 94.140.14.14 94.140.15.15 IPv6: 2a10:50c0::ad1:ff 2a10:50c0::ad2:ff # Non-filtering servers # AdGuard DNS will not block ads, trackers, or any other DNS requests. IPv4: 94.140.14.140 94.140.14.141 IPv6: 2a10:50c0::1:ff 2a10:50c0::2:ff # Family protection servers # AdGuard DNS will block ads, trackers,…
Comment linking /en/public-dns.html
on “Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom”Easier just to block the ad servers at the DNS level. I use NextDNS [1] as it lets me configure it, but AdGuard [2] DNS probably also works well. 1. https://nextdns.io/ 2. https://adguard-dns.io/en/welcome.html
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on “Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: Apps hijacked to spy on location”AdGuard has a hosted version too. I use the free public version with no issues. https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
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on “AdGuard Home: Network-wide ads and trackers blocking DNS server”Sorry, but adblock is a genuine quality of life hack for everyone online. Since you don't want to install anything, how about working at the DNS level and/or hosts level? https://adguard-dns.io/en/welcome.html will change your mind. https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist is another option for doing it in the hosts file.
Comment linking /en/welcome.html
on “How Tube Amplifiers Work”Two raspberries with Adguard combined with Tailscale is pretty safe and removes a nice chunk of garbage from the internet https://adguard-dns.io/en/welcome.html
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on “Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?”I configured my kid's tablet to use AdGuard's public DNS https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html No more in-app ads. Strange thing, I tried it on my FireTV to block youtube ads, but it didn't work. I wouldn't be surprised if the FireTV monkies around with user settings. The other explanation could be that youtube uses the same hostname for videos and ads, so the DNS blocking can't distinguish. I ended up side-load…
Comment linking /en/public-dns.html
on “AppLovin bids $17.5B to acquire Unity”I have been super happy downloading the free adguard dns profile on my iphone and blocking ads across the entire spectrum. Makes reading on internet so much better. Here is the link if anyone is wondering. https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
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on “Chegg is on its last legs after ChatGPT sent its stock down”https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html go to Our server addresses > Plain DNS > default servers
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on “Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?”I used to use AdGuard's DNS ( https://adguard-dns.io/ ). It looks like they're going to be launching an upgraded version that you can customize in the future. Right now, I'm using NextDNS ( https://nextdns.io ). It lets me add ad/tracking block lists, block specific domains (especially ones that serve annoying embeds in many sites), and setup rewrites so that I can have my-fake-domain.com resolve to localhost. I can…
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on “Open DNS resolvers, from bad to worse”Alternatively, you can do something like this: *$denyallow=example.org|example.com Blocks everything except example.org and example.com. Works in AdGuard Home, AdGuard DNS or any other AG product with DNS filtering capabilities: https://adguard-dns.io/kb/general/dns-filtering-syntax/
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on “Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist”dns.adguard.com is also a free option https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
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on “Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024”I've tried hosted Pi-Hole and AdGuard Home. They are good as long as I'm around to fix stuffs. Then I tested something which can be global (home) and also for individual devices -- Control-D, NextDNS, and Adguard DNS. All of them works pretty well. If I really have to choose, then it would be in the order of NextDNS > Control-D > AdGuard DNS. Affiliated with none, and have decided to subscribe to all three to furthe…
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on “Ask HN: Which tools are the best for internet safety for kids?”Add the AdGuard DNS configuration profile to your iDevice as a whole (no need for any separate app), and ads are blocked for everything except apps whose ads are drawn from the same source as their content. https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/encrypted-dns-ios-14.html So yeah. While it won’t kill ads in apps like YouTube or Pinterest, it will kill nearly all ads in web pages and apps that source their ads from external p…
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on “A cartoon butt clenching a bar of soap has invaded my online ads”Not just browsers but I also try to stay with the native App as much as possible, so I also use Safari. I use AdGuard[1] (Family Lifetime License) and works pretty well. I believe it also has the Personal AdGuard DNS[2] and I moved to it from PiHole, then NextDNS. 1. https://adguard.com 2. https://adguard-dns.io
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on “Ask HN: Which web browser do you use and why?”People will mention PiHole and that's a neat solution if you want to maintain a server. If you don't, https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html lets you point your DNS servers at AdGuard and let them block ads for you. No maintenance required. One caveat: once in a while, like maybe once a year, my wife or I encounter a site that AdGuard blocks and we need to set our DNS back to "normal" for things to work. But you'…
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on “Hertz's Tesla Fire Sale Continues as Depreciation Costs Mount”I just use adguard as my DNS on my phone, blocks out most, not all ads! Functionality is not limited to the browser, ads are also blocked in freemium type apps. I also use the same DNS on my router so that I dont have to configure each device on the network. https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
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on “Ask HN: Why does Chrome Android not support extensions/plugins?”
