
While the company's products have earned positive feedback in several industry publications, a series of policies by Google and Apple app stores occurred in 2014 - 2018, which impeded user access to AdGuard's mobile applications. ĪdGuard began testing DNS service back in 2016, and officially launched it in 2018. AdGuard DNS also comes with an optional "Family Protection" mode for blocking access to websites with adult content as well as enforcing safe search in search engines. The product supports encryption technologies, including DNSCrypt, DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS and DNS-over-QUIC. Some of these servers provide DNS-level network filtering for blocking domains used for delivering advertisement, online tracking, analytics. AdGuard DNSĪdGuard hosts multiple free public DNS servers. The application sets up a local VPN, which intercepts and filters all traffic on the mobile device without sending it to a remote server.
#Adguard extension for edge for android
AdGuard applicationsĪdGuard has Windows Android and Mac versions, as well as native mobile versions for Android and iOS. It downloads filter list updates and asks browsers to enforce them via Content Blocker API. AdGuard Content Blocker is an additional browser extension for browsers Yandex Browser and Samsung Internet, which uses Content Blocker API. The product also blocks spyware and warns users of malicious websites. There is a possibility to handle anti- AdBlock scripts. The browser extension blocks video ads, interstitial ads, floating ads, pop-ups, banners, and text ads. ĪdGuard Home acts as a recursive DNS resolver, which responds with an invalid address for domains that appear in its filter lists quests. In 2014 the company was incorporated in Cyprus and subsequently moved its headquarters there.
#Adguard extension for edge software
ĪdGuard Software Limited was founded in 2009 in Moscow. A cross-platform utility, AdGuard is also available as an extension for the most widely used browsers, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser, and Microsoft Edge. Some products support Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, Android and iOS. Some of AdGuard products are open-source, some are free, and some are shareware. AdGuard Software Limited develops a line of ad blocking and privacy protection software for blocking pop-ups, banners, and web tracking, obscene content, malware and phishing.
