Why Everyone Should Use an Ad Blocker (AdGuard Interview)

About this episode

Henry interviews the CTO of AdGuard about the importance of ad blockers and privacy protection.

Ad blockers have broad permissions to intercept all your web traffic—which means you need to know which ones to trust. Henry interviewed the CTO and co-founded of AdGuard about why they pivoted from data collection to privacy protection, how DNS filtering differs from local ad blocking, and Apple's revolutionary new API that lets ad blockers work system-wide on iOS without ever seeing your traffic. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • AdGuard: https://adguard.com/ • AdGuard Home: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html • AdGuard DNS: https://adguard-dns.io/ • AdGuard VPN: https://adguard-vpn.com/ • AdGuard Mail: https://adguard-mail.com/ • Andrey's AFDS 2025 Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2c5WMjpVZc ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 INTRO 00:06:04 PRE-SNOWDEN VS. POST-SNOWDEN 00:07:58 TYPES OF FILTERING 00:15:03 LOCAL FILTERING VS. DNS & VPN 00:18:14 INTERCEPTING WEB TRAFFIC CONCERNS 00:21:27 ADGUARD VS. BROWSER SOLUTIONS 00:26:15 ADGUARD EXTENSION VS. OTHERS 00:31:15 ADGUARD FILTERING VS. OTHERS 00:32:04 ADGUARD HOME 00:34:08 PRICING STRUCTURE 00:35:52 BASED IN CYPRUS? 00:38:25 OPEN SOURCE? 00:41:04 THE AD BLOCKING ECOSYSTEM 00:44:26 MITIGATING ATTACKS 00:51:13 THE ROLE OF AD…

People in this episode

Host: Henry

Guest: CTO and co-founder of AdGuard

Topics covered

• ad blockers
• privacy protection
• web traffic
• DNS filtering
• iOS ad blocking
• data collection

Keywords

• ad blocker
• privacy
• DNS filtering
• iOS
• web traffic
• AdGuard
• data collection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, AdGuard Home, AdGuard DNS, AdGuard VPN, AdGuard Mail

Places: Cyprus

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