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What's the consensus on AdGuard?
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Not sure how relevant it is but it is a Russian company, I believe. Take from that what you will.
It was founded in Russia in 2009, then moved its headquarters from Moscow to Cyprus almost 10 years ago, in 2014 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdGuard
They've been a solid presence in the privacy scene for years now, contributing to spread privacy awareness and not incurring in a single major controvesy/scandal so far.
They're legit imo, and they provide solid services
Not sure about the basis for the claims of "shadiness"
Cyprus is a tax haven.
It has not been a tax haven in nearly 5 years.
okay then. Cyprus was still a tax haven when the Russian-based company moved there, I'm sure for completely unrelated reasons.
Ah, of course, the privacy oriented company becomes suspicious when it moves OUT of Russia, i see!
Do you have any substance or is this just baseless speculation?
So they're good with privacy tech and money.
This is my main reason for not using them. I have two Pihole servers running gravity sync, unbound and wireguard on each and VPN my phone back home for self hosted DNS resolution and ad blocking.
+1 for pihole! Stupid easy for linux geeks to setup and maintain, but probably a pretty hard sell for the more general public. A cloud service like NextDNS might be more appropriate for average Joes. I can't speak to AdGuard since I don't use it, but I know that name gets mentioned frequently in privacy circles - favorably, I think...
You can easily get pihole running on anything these days.
Well this part with Russian company it is so lol. I am more comfortable giving my dns requests to russia and not to my goverment