Advanced Settings guide

How to reach the Advanced settings

Changing Low-level settings can cause problems with the performance of AdGuard, may break the Internet connection or compromise your security and privacy. You should only open this section if you are sure of what you are doing or our support team has asked you to do it. To go to Advanced settings, follow this route: the AdGuard icon at the tray menu → the gear icon → Advanced → Advanced settings.

Advanced settings

network.extension.exclude.domains

The listed domains will be excluded from filtering in Network Extension mode. Use a comma or line break to separate values.

network.extension.exclude.ports

The listed ports will be excluded from filtering in Network Extension mode. Use a comma or line break to separate values.

network.extension.route.exclude

The listed routes will be excluded from filtering in Network Extension mode. Set routes using an IP address or destination CIDR. Separate values with commas or line breaks.

network.extension.http.downgrade.bundleids

Here you can specify a list of applications for which the HTTP/2 protocol will be downgraded to HTTP/1.1 in the Network Extension filtering mode. The bundle ID should be separated by a comma or a line break.

network.extension.monterey.force.split.tunnel

Here you can prohibit AdGuard from using the "default route" which is enabled by default in Network Extension mode on macOS Monterey. AdGuard uses "default route" to disable iCloud Private Relay and Protect Mail Activity, because it cannot work with them simultaneously.

You will find more information about the problem in this article.

network.extension.dns.redirect.exclude.bundleids

Here you can specify a list of applications that make DNS queries directly not via system DNS resolver (for example, some VPN clients or DNS filtering applications). DNS filtering will be disabled for them in the Network Extension mode. The bundle IDs should be separated by a comma or line break.

network.https.ocsp.check

By setting true, you enable HTTPS certificate revocation checking.

network.filtering.localnetwork

By setting true, you enable local network filtering.

network.filtering.localhost

By setting true, you enable LoopBack filtering.

upstream.proxy

In this string, you can specify a proxy server for upstream connections. For example:

SOCKS5 proxy with authentication — socks5://username:password@proxy.example.org:1080
Local HTTP proxy without authentication — http://localhost:3128

upstream.proxy.socks5udp

By setting true, you enable redirection of UDP traffic through the local server in SOCKS5 mode. Note: If your SOCKS5 server does not support the UDP protocol, enabling this setting will cause your Internet connection to fail.

dns.proxy.bootstrap.ips

Here you can enter the IP addresses of the DNS servers that will be used to determine the address of the encrypted DNS server.

dns.proxy.fallback.ips

Here you can specify a list of IP addresses of DNS servers that will be used as backups in case the encrypted DNS server fails to respond.

dns.proxy.detect.search.domains

This option enables automatic detection of the local network domain, which will be automatically redirected to the fallback DNS server instead of the main DNS server.

dns.proxy.fallback.domains

Here you can list domains for which the fallback DNS server will be used instead of the main DNS server.

dns.proxy.adblockrules.blocking.mode

Here you can specify the type of DNS server response to blocked requests, corresponding to ad-blocker-style rules.

0 — respond with REFUSED 1 — respond with NXDOMAIN 2 — respond with 0.0.0.0 or the addresses specified in dns.proxy.blocking.response.IPv4.address and/or dns.proxy.blocking.response.IPv6.address

dns.proxy.hostrules.blocking.mode

Here you can specify the type of DNS server response to blocked requests, corresponding to hosts rules:

dns.proxy.blocking.response.IPv4.address

Here you can specify the IPv4 address that will be returned in response to blocked "A" requests when dns.proxy.adblockrules.blocking.mode or dns.proxy.hostrules.blocking.mode is set to the response type "ADDRESS".

dns.proxy.blocking.response.IPv6.address

Here you can specify the IPv6 address that will be returned in response to blocked "AAAA" requests when dns.proxy.adblockrules.blocking.mode or dns.proxy.hostrules.blocking.mode is set to the response type "ADDRESS".

dns.proxy.block.AAAA.requests

Here you can enable IPv6 DNS query blocking.

dns.proxy.blocked.response.TTL.in.seconds

Here you can specify the TTL (time to live) value that will be returned in response to a blocked request.

subscription.link.interception.userscript

Activate this feature if you want AdGuard to automatically intercept the URLs of userscripts and open the installation window.

subscription.link.interception.filter

Activate this feature if you want AdGuard to automatically intercept subscription URLs (for example, abp:subscribe, etc.) and open the custom filter setup window.

How to reach the Advanced settings​

Advanced settings​

How to reach the Advanced settings

Advanced settings