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What's the consensus on AdGuard?
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I have no idea if adGuard is trustworthy or not, I personally use adAway which is open source and under a GPLv3 license. Perfectly satisfied with it.
I was using AdAway before switching to Adguard. I loved it, but my problem with it was that it kept disconnecting randomly.
Huh, that's my complaint with the latest AdGuard - now it seems to just... go away... on my phone pretty frequently. The older version didn't ever stop unless I stopped it. I paid for a lifetime on my current phone, but when I get a new one I'll be checking out the free options before paying yearly for AdGuard.
I have never had a problem with adAway, worth it to mention is that I have never tried any other adblocking services on my andriod.
Edit: some news app that I use serve their ads threw the same domain as their news so that is, at least for me, hard to block.
I used to use it and I loved it. Lately it started disconnecting itself randomly, and that's why I've switched to Adguard's DNS resolver, because reconnecting manually every time was annoying.
In any case you should try it, it's free and maybe the problem was with my own device.
I've been using the rooted version for maybe 5 years now and never had a problem with it