I unsubscribed from their mailing list and in short order received 3 more emails lol

EDIT : And props to Adguard for admitting and explaining their mistake… They just replied to my ticket and apologized… It was a glitch in their system

    • Spliffman1OP
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      4111 months ago

      Ooooh boy, this happened yesterday… I’m not using Adguard, I was only still on their mailing list from some time idk when when I tried it, I use uBlock Origin. The post isn’t really about or because I use Adguard, it’s the irony

      • DarkThoughts
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        Why do they even have your email address? I never heard of an adblocker that requires registration.

      • @Correct316@monero.town
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        111 months ago

        uBlock Or

        Nice, I was just going to suggest uBlock Origin. Side hack, I use simplelogin.io (or use annonaddy) so that every site get’s a different email address. Easy to turn off emails, and makes you more hack resistant.

      • panCatQ
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        011 months ago

        I have actually used adguard for dns and few other things and i dont remember need to give them my mail id , nor do i get any mails from them

        • Spliffman1OP
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          Never said you did, or that it was required, but I did. and they’ve had my email for a while … Been so long ago I’m not even remembering clearly why I had it, oh I think I tried the android version on my phone when I decided to stop rooting and I couldn’t use Adaway

    • Spliffman1OP
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      1311 months ago

      And really I had forgotten I was on their mailing list until their email server reminded me yesterday like that 😂

    • @danA
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      11 months ago

      AdGuard have a free product called “AdGuard Home” that’s like PiHole but more powerful. It lets you run a DNS server on your own network that blocks ads, and uses encrypted DNS queries (DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS) to prevent your ISP from snooping on the requests. Some ISPs build ad targeting profiles based on the sites you visit, and just using a third-party DNS server (like Google’s 8.8.8.8 or Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1) doesn’t solve this since it’s still clear-text and the ISP can still collect the data.

      This lets you block ads on devices that can’t run adblockers, like TVs. It runs well on even the cheapest Raspberry Pi 4B, too.

    • N-E-N
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      111 months ago

      AdGuard has a invert allow list that I like. I prefer it to be off on sites by default and enable it when I want to

      • Deez
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        211 months ago

        Do you need to unblock a bunch of domains for every new site you visit?

        • N-E-N
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          211 months ago

          What do u mean?

          Whenever I hit a site that has intrusive ads I just hit 1 button and it starts adblocking on that domain

          • Deez
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            211 months ago

            Oh that makes sense. I had a brain fail. Cheers!