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Black Friday'21: The Biggest Sale of the Year
In November, when days are short and weather is cold, it might be hard to sustain a good mood. We're here to cheer you up a bit with Black Friday Sale! Hopefully, you'll have many bright spots in this gloomy month, our offer humbly included.
Ludmila Kudryavtseva on
A no-name ad blocker will serve you ads, Zuckerberg will delete your face. The world is cruel, read our digest
Several bits of advice on how to avoid ads in our digest - along with the usual set of important or interesting stuff
Anastasiia Fedotova on
DNS: Content Blocking at Scale
How DNS can widen the window to the "better Internet" without ads and trackers? Let's take a look at content blocking at scale with AdGuard's co-founder and CTO Andrey Meshkov.
AdGuard Supports Zoom Popularity by Blocking Ads There
Zoom announces advertising program for free Basic users, and it's a slippery road that can easily lead to data gathering and inevitable leaks.
Technical update of AdGuard VPN for Windows: fixing a major mistake
We've released another update. It's technical and doesn't contain any changes for most of the users yet it fixes a major mistake. In this blog post we'll explain what has happened.
AdGuard VPN v1.1 for Mac release
Let us introduce the AdGuard VPN v1.1 for Mac which has two great features: QUIC protocol support and an option to add apps to exclusions! Take a closer look at these key moments.
AdGuard VPN v1.1 for Windows release
We are happy to release AdGuard VPN for Windows v1.1. It took us several months to fix bugs that were interfering with the application. But now AdGuard VPN for Windows v1.1 is finally ready to pleasantly surprise you with stable work and few important improvements.
Spooktacular Halloween Promo
This year we've prepared something special for you:
* 40% OFF all AdGuard Ad Blocker keys (including renewals and upgrades of the keys you already have),
* 60% OFF AdGuard VPN Yearly subscriptions,
* And a scary game!
AdGuard v2.6 for Mac: DNS filtering, Native Apple Silicon and Monterey support
Good news alert! DNS filtering and native Apple silicon support are added to AdGuard for Mac. These features have been used by beta testing enthusiasts for a long time now, but today we've finally got to the release point, so the features will be available for all users.
Zuckerberg is proud, our future is awful, apps scan your photos yet again: AdGuard's digest
How do you do today? Our digest is hardly good to raise your mood, but we discuss important stuff. A lot has already happened in the first half of October, and probably some big changes are ahead.
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Installation
You can install AdGuard for Android only manually. Google prohibits distribution of network-level ad blockers via Google Play, i.e. apps that block commercials in other apps. You will find more information about Google restrictive policy in our blog.
To use the app on your mobile device, you will need to do the following.
First of all, allow installing apps from unknown sources in your device’s OS settings. For this you will need to:
For Android 8 or newer: tap on the downloaded AdGuard APK file and then on Install. If installation from your browser is not allowed, you will see a screen informing you about it. From this screen tap on Settings → Allow from this source → Back → Install.
Instruction for old Android versions
For Android 7: give the browser access to the repository. Then agree to download APK format. Open the downloaded file and install AdGuard.
For Android 6: open Settings, then select Additional settings in System & Device. Switch on Unknown sources and press OK in the system warning window.
(Please note that the path towards these settings may differ depending on a device).
For Android 5: open Settings, then select Security in the Personal section. Switch on Unknown sources and press OK in the system warning window.
You can now install the app on your device. You will see the request to save the downloaded file. Press OK.
When the download is complete, the system will ask you if you want to install the AdGuard app. Press Install.
Wait for the installation to complete and press Done.
AdGuard is now installed on your device. You can launch the app by pressing its icon in the list of installed apps.
