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Signing up for a dating app is risky enough. Your photos, location, and personal data going to some AI company? That wasn’t part of the deal.

As bad as ads are, at least you are aware of them. Trackers, on the other hand, are invisible and follow you everywhere. How much of your traffic is actually taken away by tracking?

Starting with AdGuard for Windows v8.0, we will no longer support Windows 8 and 8.1, but you can use the latest supported versions.

YouTube has made 30-second unskippable ads part of the viewing experience for those watching the platform on TV. In a blog post on March 2, the Google-owned company announced that the format is now rolling out globally.

Modified version of the presentation originally delivered at the Ad-Filtering Dev Summit 2025 (AFDS) by Elizaveta Egorova and Dávid Tóta, developers at AdGuard

Discord, like several other major platforms, has been facing mounting regulatory pressure to better protect minors from adult content...

We’re excited to share that AdGuard is now available as one of the first ad-blocking browser extensions for the Meta Quest Browser. This marks a big step toward a more customizable and privacy-focused browsing experience in virtual and mixed reality.

With AdGuard for Windows v7.22.4, we’re introducing SockFilter, our new network driver. While still experimental, it has the potential to make AdGuard better now and in the future.

This update adds DNS filtering and Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) support, along with userscripts, userstyles, and a more consistent update workflow.

AdGuard is proud to be among the signatories of a newly published open letter opposing Google’s upcoming developer verification policy. The campaign was spearheaded by F-Droid, which launched it last year and has been rallying support ever since.