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by suzyne » 2025-03-03, 00:58
I tried out AdGuard a short while back, but stopped because of several warnings here about how it fiddles with Security Certificates to accomplish the most effective blocking.
Gemmaugr wrote: ↑2025-03-02, 22:57
To actually attempt to answer your question though.. Isn't AdGuard a stand-alone program for DNS/Hosts blocking?
Which would mean it's only blocking Third Party Ads, and not First Party Ads embedded in and from the site itself.
Yes, it's standalone but my understanding is that it also does clever filtering of the actual HTML that the browser sees so it can potentially be just as good, (if not better?) than a browser based ad blocker.
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