ameshkov

Well, it is not that similar. DNS66 is just a DNS changer/filter, AdGuard is a full-scale traffic filter and firewall: https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-vs-adaway-dns66/

You might want to checkout AdGuard Home if you want to run it on your own server or in your own network: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

Notable differences between it and Pi-Hole:

1. Easy to set up and use. It's just a single binary, everything you need is inside.

2. Supports every DNS encryption protocol out-of-the-box: DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, DNSCrypt.

3. Can run on any platform (even on Windows since today).

I guess the encrypted SNI draft is what's meant here.

Here is a short FAQ

1. Where is the code?

Here it is: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

2. Pi-hole?

Pi-hole is awesome! Actually, before AdGuard Home launch it was the only viable option. Now you have a choice.

Also, we named this version "0.9" for a reason. It is just the beginning, and a lot of new features are going to be implemented in the nearest future.

Notable features/differences of the current version:

* AdGuard Home has the same software under the hood as we use for our public AdGuard DNS servers (which are quite popular) so it is ready for the heavy load.

* Simple UI, configure malware/phishing blocking, blocking adult websites or enforcing safe search, all in a couple of clicks.

* It understands adblock rules syntax, so you don't need 10k lines hosts files to block doubleclick subdomains.

* It shows you some metadata about domains, and it's quite interesting to see who really tracks you.

* AdGuard is built on modern tech and written entirely in golang, which makes the further development easier. It is not a set of different tools (like pi-hole), but a single binary - easy to deploy and manage, and it can be compiled for whatever platform you want.

3. Future plans?

It always annoyed me in pi-hole that setting it up as I wish required time and considerable technical expertise. You cannot get a private VPN+pi-hole in one click.

What I want is a simple and easy-to-configure software (or even hardware) that will cover all the basic needs including easy deploy and configuration and one-click set up of a private VPN to use on your mobile devices.

Ideally, in some not-very-distant future, I want my mom to use AG Home, but I can't tell her "hey mom, get an RPi and read this manual about configuring AG Home." I want to be able to give her a device, and say "plug it in and voila" :)

> How would they do this if you never visit the site or download the app?

Facebook SDK is used in more than 40% of mobile apps. Devs do it for analytics and ads. The feature is called Facebook Audience Network.

According to Malwarebytes (they got banned too), server-side or client-side does not matter: https://twitter.com/thomasareed/status/1021095129279541249

Blocking ads system-wide with DNS filtering (intercept dns requests, block ad and tracking domains) is exactly what AG was doing before the policy shift; and it is still able to do it, but now the default blacklist is empty because of Apple.

There is no misinformation about it. Apple has made it clear to the system-wide blockers developers that this was happening because of ad blocking.

There are still a lot of apps using the VPN API for additional purposes. For instance, AdGuard Pro for iOS is still there, and it lets users use DNSCrypt or block domains manually. The difference is that it does not do system-wide ad blocking by default.

The easiest way would be to visit a website like "whatsmyip" and check that your IP address stays the same.

It is, but system-wide ad blocking is disabled by default. You need to manually add filters subscriptions or hosts files in order to get it back. Not that it's much of a problem, though.

You may have looked on a bad one.

System-wide blockers on both iOS and Android do use the VPN API, but the idea is to intercept your outgoing traffic on the TUN interface, emulate the TCP/IP stack, and filter it locally, right on your device.

Hurry not, Apple did the very same thing last year: https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/15/apple-reportedly-shifts-app-s...

At least because of this:

* https://developer.amazon.com/mobile-ads

* https://aws.amazon.com/mobileanalytics/

Not as large as Facebook or Google (at the moment ~5% of top Android apps connect to their servers). Apparently, they are going to grow.

Not really, they plan to certify publishers and adtech companies. "Certified Better Ads" ftfs.

Ok thx

FF has indeed become faster now, but man, how bad is it's dev tools. I remember this time when I kept FF for development purposes solely due to firebug. Things might reverse this time as Chrome's dev tools are Superior to FF's counterpart.

Here are some random thoughts on the matter.

1. This is scary. Any app you've installed and forgot to remove may receive an update and start doing it and you simply won't be aware. The apps from the article were doing during the night when the device was charging, zero chance one could've noticed it.

2. AV companies are happy. Finally, there is a (one more?) legitimate reason for using a mobile AV app.

3. I think the idea of mining in exchange for goods has a great potential, but it seems that nobody even tries to use it in a legit manner. It might replace ads or paywalls, but it's more likely to end up being a "new adware" if nothing changes.

Sublime 3 and VS Code icons have the same colors now, confuses me every time I am trying to run any of them from the dock.