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  Upd: November 28, 2024 5 min read AdGuard Research Industry news

  What happens after Google (hypothetically) is broken up? Insights from AdGuard CTO

  The US Department of Justice demands that Google sells Chrome and syndicates Google Search results. This will potentially have far-reaching consequences for the industry and ultimately regular users.

  Andrey Meshkov
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  Upd: December 4, 2024 6 min read Industry news Privacy

  Mozilla enters ad tech: Can privacy and profit coexist?

  Mozilla, who has been positioning itself as a privacy champion and has backed it up many times with its actions, is pivoting into ad tech business. Can privacy and profit coexist?

  Andrey Meshkov
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  Upd: August 27, 2024 4 min read Industry news Privacy

  Thoughts on Pavel Durov’s detention and general perception of digital privacy in today’s world

  The detention of Telegram's creator Pavel Durov can ensue consequences for privacy.

  Andrey Meshkov
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  Upd: November 10, 2023 8 min read AdGuard Browser Extensions Manifest V3

  Chrome Manifest V3 is looming over us. Where do we stand?

  Manifest V3 is the new Chrome extensions API that has already changed the landscape for all extensions and will continue to do so. AdGuard's CTO answers the most popular questions about MV3.

  Andrey Meshkov
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  May 12, 2023 4 min read Industry news

  YouTube tests new ways to stop ad blockers: what to know and expect

  YouTube is attempting to block ad blockers in a new test and asking users to pay for a subscription if they want to watch videos ad-free. Is this the end of ad blocking on YouTube? Read our take.

  Andrey Meshkov
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  April 25, 2023 13 min read

  Announcing AGLint

  Today, we want to introduce a new tool that is supposed to make it easier to develop filter lists. We seek feedback from the community and welcome contributions to the linter.

  Andrey Meshkov Dávid Tóta
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  April 12, 2023 2 min read AdGuard for iOS AdGuard news Release notes

  AdGuard v4.4.6 for iOS: +100 to ad blocking

  Spring brings many things to lift our spirits. Here’s another one – the long-awaited release of AdGuard v4.4.6 for iOS. It boasts advanced blocking rules acceleration and native support for the `:has()` pseudo-class.

  Anastasiia Fedotova Andrey Meshkov
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  April 3, 2023 3 min read Industry news

  Ads in Bing Chat: The End of Content Blockers is Nigh?

  As Microsoft introduces ads to its Bing AI chatbot, ad blockers face a problem: how to block ads without making the chatbot's responses unhelpful. But while the task is difficult, we're up for the challenge.

  Andrey Meshkov
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  Upd: October 21, 2022 4 min read Industry news

  EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers

  One of the world’s most popular ad blocking filter lists, EasyList, has run into a serious issue that threatens to tank it, as well as many open-source projects that rely on it. See if this affects you personally, and how you can help.

  Andrey Meshkov
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  Upd: April 29, 2022 1 min read AdGuard news

  Time to re-enable your 2FA — or to set it up finally

  We’ve learned our site used the Google Charts API to enable 2FA. We have made changes to ensure no third-party service is used for this purpose ever again.

  Andrey Meshkov