Comment by ameshkov | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ameshkov | Hacker News Reader

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It's not the first time I've noticed you spreading this misinformation on HN, so let me respond.

Most of AdGuard's staff relocated in 2022, and I (CTO and co-founder of AdGuard) personally live in Limassol, Cyprus. We commented on that publicly, but it seems that random forum posts often regarded as more reliable sources of information.

I am totally fine with anyone not trusting AdGuard for any reason, but please keep your statements factually correct.

PS: Sorry for sticking a small promo in the comment, but this year we're organizing the annual summit (adfilteringdevsummit.com) for ad blockers' devs on our home turf in Limassol, a perfect opportunity to meet us, other ad blockers and even browsers' devs.

> "Most of AdGuard's staff relocated in 2022"

So a lot of your staff remain in Russia?

If you've still got most of your devs working in Russia, and it looks like that from your github projects, I'm not sure what part of the comment you responded to is not correct or misinformation.

Most of the employees relocated including senior staff, devs and people with access. We still have some contractors working from there, mostly in support service, content and qa. Not "most" or "a lot", but nevertheless.

We encourage people to move closer to the head office, but as long as it's not required by law, we’re not going to force people to move out, as I know very well how hard it is.

> and it looks like that from your github projects

You do realize that a russian name != working in Russia, right?

> I'm not sure what part of the comment you responded to is not correct or misinformation

The parts where:

1. It's implied that the company is just "registered".

2. It's implied that the company is not European.

3. It's said that devs reside in Russia.

All three are factually incorrect.

AdGuard has been around for 16+ years, and throughout this time I've seen similar accusations many times. I am generally fine with them — that's life — but today I just wasn't in the mood, sorry for that. Anyways, this is one more reason to have more code published to open source, a win-win for all.

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