Adguard 2015 Recap

This year is soon to end, we all hope that 2016 will bring us all joy, happiness and success. Everyone who joined us just recently – welcome to Adguard family, those who stayed with us for a while – thank you, guys. We really appreciate your support and will do our best to continue improving our software.

Well, it’s been a productive year for our team. Let’s recall together all Adguard highlights of 2015.

Adguard for Opera extension gets 1 million downloads

January 12

Our extension became very popular in Opera Add-ons and reached 1 million downloads in the beginning of the year. Today it scores more than 2,7m!

Adguard Filter Policy is published

January 16

In January we have finally formulated policy of filter filling. Earlier there were disputes about what should and what should not be added to them. Now it is governed by a published policy and every user can see what shall each filter block and what are the limitations.

Brand new Adguard licenses

March 19

We changed our license policy in order to make it more convenient and transparent to users. Which marked the creation of more affordable Mobile licenses and availability of Parental control module in both standard and premium licenses.

Adguard Browser Extension: version 2.0

March 30

We have released very much improved version of our extensions. They became really faster and more lightweight.

Official Adguard for Mac release

*April 29 *

The historic release of our program for OS X took place in mid-spring. Adguard became the first ever ad blocking program for Mac. And we are proud of this Windows version sibling.

Adguard for Android gets a Firewall

April 30

We introduced the Firewall feature which was a very significant update since Adguard became a full-fledged filter. It can control ALL traffic, and thus ensure full protection of your device.

Stealth Mode by Adguard

May 21

We have developed a tool for privacy protection for the new Chromium-based browser by Yandex. This project formed the basis for the new separate module in Adguard 6.

Adguard for Android 2.0

August 19

In August we released the long-awaited version 2.0 of Adguard for Android. As you can see we changed the design to Material, so our app became even more handsome (if you can imagine :)). This version brought many changes, including the coolest Firewall feature we mentioned above.

Adguard for Mac 1.1

August 26

And here we released an update for the new product, just a couple of months after the first release. This was a very important version, because the major changes were aimed at improving safety and increasing stability.

Adguard available to track on GitHub

August 28

We have decided to become an even more open project and moved to GitHub. Since then any user could follow the development of our project, submit a bug or make a feature request.

Adguard for Android 2.1 release

October 14

In mid october we gave Android app another brush and released Adguard 2.1. Starting with this version users can enable/disable Firewall, we introduced low-level setting and much more.

Adguard for iOS release

October 22

October brought some big news – the world has finally seen our app for iPhones and iPads. It is now available on App Store and as we see from reviews and downloads, our users like it

Adguard 6 release candidate

December 24

That was some breaking news for sure. Users expected the version 6 more than Christmas. Kidding, but really we received tons of messages asking for the date of release. We now introduce Adguard 6 release candidate. And it’s almost official release time. We will publish it officially in the beginning of 2016.

That’s what it was like in 2015. We believe the next year will be even more productive. At least we are eager to do everything for it. By the way early this year we want to publish one cool and nice roadmap where all of you will be able to vote for the features you want to add in Adguard.

Wish you all Happy New year and happy holidays one more time. May the Force be with you

Sincerely,
Adguard team