More than two months have passed since the last update of Adguard for Android. It is a long break, but we were not sitting on our hands doing nothing. In fact, we have some big news for you: HTTPS filtering is finally here! Those of you who know what it means should be already as excited about it as we are, and for all the others we will explain it below in detail.
What is it?
So, why HTTPS filtering is so important? It is because quite a bit of ads are loaded using HTTPS protocol, and previously such ads were missed by Adguard – simply because Adguard couldn’t filter HTTPS traffic.
Now these days are over. To enable HTTPS filtering, simply go to Adguard settings -> HTTPS filtering. Put checkmark at ‘Install certificate’ to install certificate, then enable ‘Filter HTTPS connections’ and you are good to go.
Drawbacks
Unfortunately, such power doesn’t come with no price; there are two minor drawbacks.
Worth mentioning that if you have root access, you can evade these complications by manually adding our certificate to the System certificate storage. You can learn more about it in #334 (but please read all comments there).
Privacy and security
From the beginning, the main goal of HTTPS was to secure your data that you transfer via network. We take privacy and security issues very seriously, and that’s why we spent a lot of time to make sure you will not lose HTTPS advantages while filtering HTTPS protocol.
Last but not the least, if you are still concerned, you can set Adguard to filter HTTPS connections to the domains from the blacklist only. By default Adguard will filter all HTTPS connections to all domains, except for domains from the whitelist. Of course, both lists are customizable.
We decided this feature earned a separate header since it was one of, if not the most popular question: does Adguard block ads in YouTube app? Finally, we can answer ‘yes’. YouTube app uses HTTPS protocol to load ads, so you need to enable HTTPS filtering. Sometimes, it may be required to clear cache and YouTube app data.
We continue to make Adguard more accessable for our users all over the world. This time Adguard was translated into three more languages: Finnish, Hungarian and Chinese Traditional.
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This is a beta of future 2.5 version, but you can already use it if you want to. For this purpose you need to enable beta channel of updates: Advanced -> Update channel -> Choose ‘Beta’.
Alternatively, the latest beta version is available directly at this link: adguard.com/apkb
But we have warned you: this is a test version, which means that we will continue to improve it for somewhat a month and fix some sudden bugs ! :)
The official release is coming soon!
It has been a while since the last major update of Adguard browser extension, but a few days ago we did it! We released the new version of our extensions. This release contains one important change for the Firefox version and some technical features with our selector library.
AT&T (an American multinational telecommunications corporation) has published patent application recently. And the patent is quite peculiar. The point is in the invention of the system which will allow to display ads based on users emotions.