I unsubscribed from their mailing list and in short order received 3 more emails lol
EDIT : And props to Adguard for admitting and explaining their mistake… They just replied to my ticket and apologized… It was a glitch in their system
Adguard came clean, they made a critical mistake in an update
Yeah, the same email every 5 minutes doesn’t look intentional.
Yeah a wacky glitch
Why aren’t you using Mullvad or uBlock Origin?
AdGuard have a free product called “AdGuard Home” that’s like PiHole but more powerful. It lets you run a DNS server on your own network that blocks ads, and uses encrypted DNS queries (DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS) to prevent your ISP from snooping on the requests. Some ISPs build ad targeting profiles based on the sites you visit, and just using a third-party DNS server (like Google’s 8.8.8.8 or Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1) doesn’t solve this since it’s still clear-text and the ISP can still collect the data.
This lets you block ads on devices that can’t run adblockers, like TVs. It runs well on even the cheapest Raspberry Pi 4B, too.
Ahh yes the only 2 approved ad blockers/vpns
AdGuard has a invert allow list that I like. I prefer it to be off on sites by default and enable it when I want to
Do you need to unblock a bunch of domains for every new site you visit?
What do u mean?
Whenever I hit a site that has intrusive ads I just hit 1 button and it starts adblocking on that domain
Oh that makes sense. I had a brain fail. Cheers!
Hmm. I’m on the Adguard mailing list, and they send email very infrequently. And it’s always good stuff, too. Updates about privacy breaches, government policy that affects privacy, etc.
AdGuard was my ad blocker of choice on Android for years, but man did they fall off a cliff recently. I used them when you could purchase a forever license (which I don’t even think is an option anymore?), and it was great. All ads would be blocked basically everywhere, whenever they’d sneak through it just meant there was a filter that was out of date and needed to be updated.
Then about a year ago, the shenanigans started. Non-stop emails like OP is complaining about but also - their service BROKE whenever my phone would switch from data to wifi or vice versa. Like, any time it switched network types, just no internet would work at all. I’d have to force quit AdGuard and suddenly everything was fine. The timing happened when android updated from 12 to 13, so I figured it was something to do with that and emailed customer service. I got a notice that said something like “due to high ticket volume, it may be SEVERAL WEEKS before we get to your ticket or acknowledge it is being worked on, thank you for your patience.” So they’re spamming your inbox non-stop trying to click farm, but they have nobody actually working on the product. I never heard anything ever again (still haven’t…account is still active, email is still the same). I tried reaching out 3 or 4 more times but I’ve never received a response.
So…yeah fuck em I guess.
You can still buy a lifetime license. I got the family one (9 devices) for $170 a few months back, haven’t received any spam, and am really enjoying the extra features like userscript injection.
This is all on mobile. On desktop, I use ABP and uBlock Origin for ad blocking, and Tampermonkey for userscripts. But since none of those work on mobile unless you use specific browsers and avoid client apps altogether, AdGuard has been a pretty good replacement for me.
Well they did reply to my ticket to apologize and explain, and also posted on their subreddit as to their error in making some changes to their email system that caused duplicate emails to fire out. So I give them credit for that at least
I pirated it, havnt got a single email lol
Hahaha wonder why… I don’t even use it… I think they have removed me from the list now… Was a temporary glitch anyway
Reminds me at the time somebody managed to lag GitHub’s emails for several hours by pinging the entire Epic Games group (which consists of basically anyone who linked their GitHub account to their Epic Games account to see Epic’s source codes)
AdGuard has always seemed shady to me
