I’ve subscribed to mobile AdGuard for a few years and it’s been great. Now on my phone there are three products: 1 Month Safe Mobile AdBlocker, AdGuard Premium, and 1 Year Premium Mobile Ad Block. So two of those products are the same annual price but have different names. No idea what the difference is in blocking functionality. Then on Mac, we’ve got the new Mini product name, which apparently is a free product, and then a Pro level which adds functionality to the Mini product. And the price increase is huge! If one adds Pro functionality to the Mini product, does the product name change to AdGuard Pro? I think the developer should clarify and simplify the product names. Mini doesn’t mean anything. Name the free version AdGuard for Mac Free. Name the Pro version AdGuard for Mac Pro. And then clean up the product names for mobile too.

I have adguard pro on my cell phone and I’ve used adguard as an alternative to ublock origin on Mac for a good while now. Custom filterlists (the good ones) are public domains, usually curated freely on GitHub and made by people who care about the internet. Folks like DandelionSprout, offer their work for a safer internet unlike AdGuard, who is charging for an extension so they can make money off of other peoples work. I could previously just install a set of custom list and be done with it, not relying on AdGuard list which was usually inferior and doesn’t offer the same variety and options. Now when I attempt to load them, an add pops up telling me I need to pay them money to use the work of others who volunteered their time to make these lists. Imagine the tor project doing something like this, charging you by the hour to use their service. This is essentially the same app with a new skin and adware that pops up telling you to pay for it if you want to use open source or custom content blocker. Absolutely disgusting. Taking away features so you can make a quick buck is one the lowest things a developer can do. Add in the fact that this software is only as good as the open source filterlists that volunteers work on so we can have a safe internet, and you’ve got a pretty good idea of how bad of a decision this was.

Clean, simple, and easy to understand. I use on my Mac as well as my iOS devices. Great Apple citizen. Recent updates have made this much easier to use via the built in system controls. Also a big handy feature for me is the ability to quickly, permanently block elements on a webpage just by selecting them, great for navigating poorly designed websites with elements that cover others especially on mobile. However 4 out of 5 times when a website won't work or load it's because this is blocking some linked script or tracking redirect, which is sometimes annoying, especially when you have to do it several times every time such a link is clicked, but the app is just doing its job of blocking sketchy connections that I don't want and that's more a fault of the web at large.

This app appears to do a great job and what it sets out to do, but there is an annoying bug that renders this quite frustrating on a fresh boot: when this app is set to open at login, it does NOT honor the "hide" setting checkbox under System Preferences --> Users and Groups --> Current User --> Login Items --> "hide" checkbox next to AdGuard for Safari. Normally, when the system is rebooted and this box is checked, the app can launch, but without the application window opening in front of the user. Please fix this, so that the app can launch at login without popping up its preferences window each time! Finally, as a feature request, please support Catalina auto dark mode, and please allow for iCloud-based settings syncing... thanks!