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We have detected an attack towards AdGuard servers. The most important thing is: AdGuard servers were not compromised. Malefactors used existing databases of email/password pairs previously leaked by different companies. We believe that attackers were able to access some of the accounts, but only few of them which owners used the same compromised email/password pair. If you are not one of them, your personal data was not leaked. We made a desicion to reset all users' passwords anyway, mostly as a preventive measure.

While Apple users are watching and rewatching the new iPhone presentation, we simple Android folk have our own agenda — for example, new AdGuard for Android version! Let's have a look at the new features.

About a third of ad-blocking users pay for music, video, and movies. Much fewer millennials pay for news, books, e-learning. But those who do, don't regret.

If you are on macOS Sierra or High Sierra, you must have received a notification about available Safari update (when Mojave rolls out, Safari 12 will be mandatory). No doubt that there's a lot of cool stuff inside, but we will save the praise for others and instead focus on one change that seriously concerns all AdGuard Browser Extension users: new Safari is breaking all directly downloaded .safariextz extensions. And this is bad news.

This is not the first year we make a special "Back to school" offer when we give discounts and special gifts to our users. Of course, this autumn is no exception. We invite you to celebrate this marvelous time and take part in the promotion!

Hello! Long time no see! Soon it will be time to bid farewell to Summer, which is always a little sad. And while new AdGuard release won't be able to extend it, maybe it will make your day a little better. Let's have a look at the new AdGuard Browser extension.

The analytic software is a greedy monster that devours all the data it can get, no matter how sensitive and private. And no matter if the company owning the software even has a clear plan of making money out of these data. Sometimes they just get trouble instead of profits.

In the previous article about the Unimania spyware campaign I promised to tell you more about the privacy issues discovered during our automated scan of many Google Chrome extensions. This took me a while, and I apologize for the delay.

Google, Apple, Amazon and now Apple again. Ad blockers have almost conquered the desktop browsers, but corporations don't want it to happen in their walled gardens, and protect them fiercely.

With the release of the 6.3 version, AdGuard for Windows gets a significant performance boost along with some new features, like Nightly update channel and better support for sight impaired users.