The news broke recently that more and more websites make money by mining cryptocurrencies on their visitors’ computers. A person browses a site, unaware that their CPU is loaded more than normally, working on a task they didn’t put. The device slows down, making its owner less happy and productive.
UPDATED on 25.09.2017, details are in the bottom of the article
Have you ever thought that your keyboard could be a professional spy? And we are not talking about jamesbondish handsome spies from Hollywood movies, but about the overt and constant home phoning of the personal information with its future distribution to third parties. Our recent research discovered a popular Android keyboard to spy on its users, with tons of personal information being sent to remote servers and using a prohibited technique to download dangerous executable code.
The users of Youtube Red, a paid version of Google’s video and music service, report seeing various types of ads. The users are not happy since the absence of ads is one of the promised benefits of the paid subscription.
No, you are not having a deja-vu attack — we have already proudly announced the launch of our new website. But from now on it opens on the main domain adguard.com, having left the cozy incubator of «new.adguard.com». Since the original announcement, the website has become even better, by now everything is fixed, tuned, polished and awaiting your approval.
"Instagram is listening to you and uses the contents of your offline discussions for targeting ads", thinks entrepreneur and developer Damián Le Nouaille. One day he saw an ad in his Instagram news feed featuring a product that he had never googled, liked or discussed on social networks. He talked about it with his friends in a cafe, though.
This article is for AdGuard Pro for iOS users exclusively. If you are one, there’s a chance you would like to revert to version 1.2.1. How and why — find out here.
Facebook should pay us a basic income, states John Thornhill from Financial Times. Look at Alaska: for more than 30 years an investment fund financed by oil companies pays all the state’s residents from $878 to $2,072 annually (the sum depends on the success of fund’s investment efforts, not on anything a resident does or achieves).
A launch of a new corporate website often excites the company much more than the users. AdGuard, probably, is not an exception. But we still couldn’t hold the agitation within the office walls. We proudly present our newly redesigned website — new.adguard.com! And besides, we’d like to ask you for some help :)
Weather forecast app AccuWeather was caught sending data about users’ whereabouts even when denied access to the location to a company named RevealMobile. Pressing button "don’t allow" in respond to its location request stops the app from receiving GPS coordinates, but still, lets it see and send the device’s MAC address and router’s identifier.
