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17 years of fighting web threats

The web looked very different in 2009, when AdGuard was first released. It was a simpler time: block this banner, stop that pop-up, done. But as the years went by, threats became more sophisticated, and ad blockers had to evolve to match them.

From static banners to real-time ad auctions; from clumsy tracking via Flash browser games to identifying you by your screen resolution and battery status; from forcing the same ad on you across ten websites to predicting your next purchase before you’ve even made up your mind — advertisers have gone far, but so have ad blockers.

Join us as we look back at the web threats of the last seventeen years and how AdGuard has protected you from them all this time.

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Ad blockers that sell your data to advertisers

It’s not a bad joke and not a new episode of Black Mirror. A research by a cybersecurity company showed that a lot of Chrome browser extensions sell your data, many openly, and even some ad blockers with millions of users don’t shy away from easy money.

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From SMM manager to CTO: our team’s favorite AdGuard features

Do you have a favorite AdGuard feature, be it part of our ad blocker or mail service, AdGuard VPN or AdGuard DNS? Well, many of us do! We surveyed the team members on their favorite things about AdGuard products, and here are the results.

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Down the memory lane

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Class in session: The history of ad blocking

The first ever ad banner was sold in 1994, and very soon after someone decided that they don’t want to look at it — and this is how ad blocking started. Take your seat as we begin our lesson on the history of blocking ads.

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Back to the past: Interview with Andrey Meshkov

To confidently talk about the future, one first needs to learn about the past. That’s why in this TechLore interview, AdGuard’s co-founder and CTO brings up how AdGuard came to be before moving on to the current and future issues that ad blockers face.

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