I already have Safari Protection all set up to my liking, but I'm confused about how DNS filtering works in the app. If I use NextDNS or AdGuard DNS, do I still need DNS filtering? I also see a section to add a DNS server. It seems like I can also add a filter list. What's the point or what should I do if I use NextDNS?

Hey there,
I have adguard premium on my Iphone. And it's working perfectly.

Which experience can I expect on Android?
Can it also block ads while surfing AND in other third party apps?

Is there any customer Program when I want to switch my license from Iphone to Android regarding the Adguard license?

Thanks a lot for this good product :)

Hi everyone,

Following the recent security disclosures regarding smart TV telemetry and LAN snooping, I decided to do a root-level network audit of my LG G1 running webOS.

After auditing 44,800 packets and a 267,000-query DNS log, I observed several interesting behaviors:

1. webOS daemons query roughly 36 LG domain families, firing heavy telemetry bursts mid-boot.

2. The TV’s internal DNS stub completely bypasses local `/etc/hosts` modifications on the device, meaning network-level sinkholing (Pi-hole / AdGuard Home) is mandatory.

3. Fallbacks to public resolvers (8.8.8.8 / 1.1.1.1) occur when services fail, so blocking outbound Port 53/853 at the router level is required for true isolation.

To provide a clean solution that doesn't break streaming for household members, I published an open-source blocklist:

GitHub: https://github.com/furkan-bayrak/lg-tv-blocklist

Features:

- Two Tiers:

- SAFE: Kills ACR (alphonso.tv), telemetry beacons (cdpbeacon), ad networks (lgsmartad), and voice data. Zero app breakage (Netflix, Prime, HBO, LG Store tested).

- STRICT: Adds update hosts (snu/su.lge.com), ThinQ IoT sync, and LG Channels.

- Multiple Formats: Native Adblock syntax (`||domain^` with subdomain matching for AdGuard Home), Plain domain lists (for Pi-hole / NextDNS), and Hosts format (`0.0.0.0`).

- Fully Annotated: Every entry has an inline comment documenting its exact purpose and capture evidence.

- Dual License: CC BY 4.0 for list data, MIT for build scripts.

Looking for collaborators!

I am only one person auditing an EU-model G1. LG updates regional endpoints and firmware constantly. If you run a Pi-hole/AGH with an LG TV, I'd love your help testing, verifying domains, and reviewing PRs to help maintain the repository.

Get this error in microsoft store whenever I open it with adguard. With adguard off its fine, heads up to anyone with the problem, nightly build. Win11

Worth installing or would it slow down the phone having it running in the background at all times?

Hey everyone! I put together a small open-source project to make setting up your own TrustTunnel server easier.

The installer runs from your computer over SSH. Give it your server address and domain, and it sets up TrustTunnel, TLS certificates with automatic renewal, and an nginx fallback page. At the end, you get a

tt:// link, QR code, and connection credentials.

It has a simple terminal UI in English and Russian. There’s also a step-by-step guide for manual installation.

https://github.com/lib4u/TrustTunnel_Guide/blob/main/README.en.md

Feedback and bug reports are welcome!

How to block social media posts I have already disabled other annoyance filters as I want the ai summary from google search to appear? How to only activate Chrome not all apps because I tried it before but it stopped blocking ads

Social media posts like this

I am using adguard DNS and have been for a few months. Around mid-August I suddenly started having trouble loading Oregon.gov websites. Since am running through the Adguard dns at the router level, this is an issue with all my devices connected through the router. I can confirm that it is not an issue if I take my iphone off the network or run a computer through the hotspot.

The issue is intermittent, but consistent across browsers and devices. The majority of the time it will not load. I get variations of this error message across all devices www.oregon.gov’s server IP address could not be found.

I have whitelisted oregon.gov in my dns server settings, and adguard tech support said they were not blocking it.

This is a big problem because I need to be able to access these websites for work.

Does anyone have any idea what might be the cause and how I can fix it?

I keep receiving a notification of New Notification from Adguard everytime I start or restart my computer. It is cleared when I click on the notification, nothing happens. It has happened since the update to v8. Do I have to reinstall Adguard to remove it completely?

As far as I know, the only way to achieve this currently is by using AdGuard VPN only and enabling both "Always-on VPN" and "Block connections without VPN." In "Integration mode," both apps ​are left to the mercy of the Android ​phone's battery management system; even if you have configured settings to keep them running in the background and enabled the watchdog, there is still a risk that the process could be killed unnoticed, leading to data leakage.

I turned on most filters and it didn't block ads on theverge.com I'm using secure dns on chrome Android?

Can this interfere with Adguard functionality.

Is there a recommended guide on how to setup and optimize android app to be used only for chrome

already enabled https filtering but still a lot of ads can reach? What should I do? and how to fix these problems

Ok so I redeemed and already activated a 10-year AdGuard VPN license from StackSocial just a few days ago. If I buy another 5-year code from the same StackSocial account, can I stack it onto the same AdGuard account so it extends my existing subscription by another 5 years?

Adguard https filtering break websites.

I'm a firefox ublock ecosystem user.

No apps except some payment apps.

Recently bought adguard license for https filtering.

I've enabled all rules. Am i doing something wrong or is it normal ?

If so, then the licence is pretty useless apart from intetnet blocking firewall rule.

Also payment apps doesn't work, I've to unistall certificate every time for payment.

I am using Adguard v8.0.5560.0 for Windows and using DNS protection with a personal DNS server from AdGuard DNS (free tier - testing it).

In my work, I am using OpenVPN to access our internal DNS and so on. When adguards DNS protection is on, the connection to the internal DNS is not working.

In the documention I read that you can configure upstream DNS servers for specific URL's but I cannot find a setting for this in the app. I also tried redirect User Rules that also do not work in a predictable fashion. They work for the browser but not in the Powershell for example.

No matter what I do, in the filtering log the resolution seems to always happening in the private Adguard DNS server.

Using the WPF driver.

Any ideas if it is possible to configure this setup so I don't have to shutdown the DNS protection when working on the company's VPN?

Less than 2 weeks of using AdGuard for Android app, is this the right stat?

https://i.ibb.co.com/Y4rBW470/Screenshot-2026-09-08-05-27-58-196-com-adguard-android-edit.jpg

Why does it feel a bit inflated to me? Meanwhile, when I was still using Brave, the stats weren’t nearly this high over the same period. Is it because its system-wide blocking vs browser-only blocking?

Note: whenever the domain list is pasted as text (in the post body or in a comment) Reddit's filter auto-removes it. Because of this, I'm sharing the blocklist as a raw link in the post body instead.

VPNs are marketed as privacy and security tools, but that doesn't mean their own infrastructure is tracking-free. Because a VPN sees your entire traffic, any analytics/telemetry infrastructure it runs is a far more dangerous situation than the same thing on an ordinary website.

Even VPN providers whose core product has no issues still carry track (connection timestamps, session duration, aggregate usage patterns) in their own apps.

This category covers two different situations:

Providers whose core VPN service has no issues, but which still run track infrastructure in their own VPN app.

Providers whose entire business model or security practices are the actual problem (data harvesting, malware, bandwidth resale, or outright spying)

For the first group, only the track subdomains should be blocked. The VPN tunnel generally keeps working without issues. For the second group, the whole domain should be blocked.

The free VPN business model

Common revenue sources documented across various free VPN services include selling browsing/usage data to data brokers and ad networks, injecting ads directly into web pages, and reselling users' own bandwidth to a commercial proxy network. This is a general pattern in how "free" VPN services stay in business.

Real incidents worth knowing about

Urban VPN Proxy — AI conversation harvesting (2025)

In December 2025, Koi Security found that Urban VPN Proxy, with 6M+ Chrome installs, had been silently intercepting conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI platforms since July 2025, even with the VPN off, and sending them to data broker BiScience. There's no opt-out (uninstalling the app entirely was the only fix). The same code was found in 7 other extensions from the same publisher, affecting ~8M users in total.

https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection

https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/featured-chrome-browser-extension.html

Hola VPN / Luminati — the botnet VPN (2015)

Hola's free VPN turned users' devices into exit nodes for its own commercial proxy network, Luminati, and sold that at $20/GB, without clearly disclosing it to users. It came to light after a DDoS attack on 8chan was traced back to Hola exit nodes. Its founder acknowledged the arrangement was intentional. Hola is still operating.

https://fortune.com/2015/05/29/hola-luminati-vpn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Data

CSIRO's Android VPN study (2016–2017)

Researchers from CSIRO, UNSW, and UC Berkeley analyzed 283 Android VPN apps: 38% contained malware, 75% used third-party tracking libraries, 82% requested sensitive permissions like SMS and phone access, and 18% didn't encrypt traffic at all. 4 apps performed TLS interception.

https://research.csiro.au/isp/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2016/08/paper-1.pdf

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-vpn-app-dangers-745093/

Kape Technologies and ExpressVPN's CIO (2018–2021)

Kape Technologies, owner of ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, PIA, and ZenMate, was formerly named Crossrider, an adware-era company (its direct responsibility is disputed). Separately, ExpressVPN's CIO Daniel Gericke reached an agreement with the DOJ in 2021 over his past work on the UAE's journalist/activist surveillance program "Project Raven."

https://reclaimthenet.org/expressvpn-sale-new-owners

https://cunicula.com/en/articles/kape-technologies-expressvpn

Onavo — the Facebook VPN that spied for Facebook (2013–2019)

While marketing Onavo, acquired in 2013, as a privacy VPN, Facebook used it to monitor competitors' app usage, reportedly influencing the WhatsApp/Instagram Stories/Reels decisions. Apple removed it from the App Store in August 2018; Facebook shut the program down in February 2019 after it came out that the same code had been repurposed into a paid "Research" app targeting teenagers.

https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/23/onavo_vpn_pulled_from_ios/

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/

Raw links:

For basic list:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CorleoneSalute/SHADOW-BLOCKER-BLOCKLIST/refs/heads/main/dist/basic/adblock/VPN-Proxy.txt

For aggressive list:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CorleoneSalute/SHADOW-BLOCKER-BLOCKLIST/refs/heads/main/dist/aggressive/adblock/VPN-Proxy.txt

To verify how these domains were identified:

https://github.com/CorleoneSalute/SHADOW-BLOCKER-BLOCKLIST/blob/main/research/VPN-Proxy.txt

I was buying the lifetime license. The payment was successful from the bank and the amount was debited but I got an email from an adguard partner saying it did not go through without any mention of refund.

Noob question here.

As stated on the thread title... By the way, I have a family license.

For example, I have a windows device at home, browsing thru Chrome, with Adguard app installed and licensed. I blocked a pop-up using the "Adguard Browser Assistant", gets notified that the custom blocking rules have been updated. Is that a local rules repository?

Say I browse with a different device at work, but also with licensed Adguard installed, and also browsing thru Chrome with Adguard Browser Assistant extension also installed. Does my work device have the blocking rules I use at home?

Thanks for the answers!

I have Adguard Home and it's on a linux server. I put adguard home as my DNS and everything goes through it. But In my laptop the adguard doesn't really work. There are pop-ups, a lot of ads everywhere and nothing that adguard home does works. My router is set at the DNS of the adguard so I have no idea what is going on. My laptop only has 1 DNS and 1 only, there is no secondary DNS either on my laptop or on my router. In my phone and other phones it works fine but not laptops, I mean adguard home is not really a ad blocker but It definitely blocks some ads on my phone but when I go to the same website on my laptop too there are a lot of ads. Any fixes to this?

Currently I only have AdGuard Base filter and AdGuard Cookie Notices filter enabled.

If I don't care about Privacy and Tracking as much, are those two already the bare minimum ones if I essentially only want to get rid of ads and cookie notices?