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AdGuard Family Plan New Users: Lifetime Subscription (Up to 9 Devices)

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StackSocial has for New Users: AdGuard Family Plan: Lifetime Subscription (Up to 9 Devices) on sale for $15.97.

Note: This plan is only available to NEW users.

Thanks to Community Member PowerfulClover2540 for finding this deal

Ensure that you select the 'Family' plan type

About the Subscription:
  • Length of access: Lifetime
  • Redemption deadline: Redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • Max number of devices: 9
  • Access options: desktop & mobile
  • Software version: AdGuard Family
  • Updates included
About AdGuard:
  • This intuitive ad blocker offers an unparalleled web experience, powered by its three core features: an advanced ad-blocking module, a comprehensive privacy protection tool, and a robust parental control system. Say goodbye to annoying banners, intrusive pop-ups, and disruptive video ads as AdGuard ensures a clutter-free browsing experience.
System Requirements:
  • Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7
  • macOS 10.15 and newer versions (for older OS, specific versions required)
  • iOS 12 and newer versions
  • Android 7 and newer versions

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Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Receive your redemption code—and instructions to redeem the code for the product—via email immediately after purchase.
    • Please see original post for additional details and give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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StackSocial has for New Users: AdGuard Family Plan: Lifetime Subscription (Up to 9 Devices) on sale for $15.97.

Note: This plan is only available to NEW users.

Thanks to Community Member PowerfulClover2540 for finding this deal

Ensure that you select the 'Family' plan type

About the Subscription:
  • Length of access: Lifetime
  • Redemption deadline: Redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • Max number of devices: 9
  • Access options: desktop & mobile
  • Software version: AdGuard Family
  • Updates included
About AdGuard:
  • This intuitive ad blocker offers an unparalleled web experience, powered by its three core features: an advanced ad-blocking module, a comprehensive privacy protection tool, and a robust parental control system. Say goodbye to annoying banners, intrusive pop-ups, and disruptive video ads as AdGuard ensures a clutter-free browsing experience.
System Requirements:
  • Microsoft Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, 7
  • macOS 10.15 and newer versions (for older OS, specific versions required)
  • iOS 12 and newer versions
  • Android 7 and newer versions

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Receive your redemption code—and instructions to redeem the code for the product—via email immediately after purchase.
    • Please see original post for additional details and give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Thank you for your concern.


Pihole does not natively support DNS over HTTPS as a direct upstream resolver. Pihole's blocklists are somewhat all-or-nothing and curating the correct list is a manual process. I find the Adguard search interface much quicker to use. They are good at finding blocklists I've never come across. They curate some themselves.


Likewise, to get around the DNS over HTTPS issue, there has to be yet another layer such as ubound or cloudflared running. So, my internal network has to contact pihole, which contacts cloudflared, which goes out my edge gateway, all adding latency, whereas now with Adguard DNS I can do it all on my gateway since it supports DoH natively. I had 3.2 million DNS requests last month from my network. It makes a difference.


In addition with this Adguard setup, I can have different blocklists for different devices.(the gateway can choose) Again, something pihole can't support directly because it runs as a single instance.


The next time you are 'concerned' you can offer suggestions.
Does nobody have Ublock origins? I've yet to watch a YouTube ad since they started putting ads on vids because of ublock
I pay for AdGuard DNS. It's been more granular and consistent than Pihole. I don't use their app. This 'lifetime' version does not include their DNS services outside their free tier.


What do you use since you imply people are 'wild' in a bad way to spend $16.

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CyanWriter8569
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Can this block youtube ads
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Quote from CyanWriter8569 :
Can this block youtube ads
So far it has for me. I didn't realize it at first until I watched a youtube video on another device without the blocker.
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Quote from Vumko :
So far it has for me. I didn't realize it at first until I watched a youtube video on another device without the blocker.
Does it still require waiting for 5-10 seconds and skipping at the beginning of each video?
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Jmoney611
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Does nobody have Ublock origins? I've yet to watch a YouTube ad since they started putting ads on vids because of ublock
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Is AdGuard any better than free/open source uBlock Origin? I'd assume the major difference is smartphone support. Although, many browsers have built-in blockers these days and I believe mobile FireFox supports uBlock as well.
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Very interested in one of these, but I'm equally ignorant.

Do I need one for iPhone/Safari? (I use Chrome a little on the same device)

Is this a good one? Seems like a solid deal.
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I'm probably in for two. Not because I need it but because I have friends and family that do and I feel like 18 slots is probably enough to get them on all their devices.

Does anyone know if the Family edition is limited in any way or if they have add-ons or other packages with more functionality?
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Quote from AlanC8645 :
People pay for this? Wild.

I pay for AdGuard DNS. It's been more granular and consistent than Pihole. I don't use their app. This 'lifetime' version does not include their DNS services outside their free tier.


What do you use since you imply people are 'wild' in a bad way to spend $16.
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Quote from AlanC8645 :
People pay for this? Wild.
Can u explain? Or share?
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Quote from Sirkeyz :
Can u explain? Or share?
Probably because you can manually use the Adguard servers for free on your mobile devices using option 2 here: https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

I believe doing this would provide similar functionality to what this lifetime license provides.
And then ublock origin for your browsers for better control/blocking than what is offered here.
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Quote from CyanWriter8569 :
Can this block youtube ads
Not on mobile without using the Adguard video player by opening the video from a adguard player.
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank cj0r

Very happy with self hosting Adguard Home on our local home network. It does an excellent job at filtering out all the browsing trash. Will happily send them some cash for the app even if we don't use it.

I switched from pihole and have been more than happy with the transition. Better interface. Similar feature set and definitely easier to understand/use.

If I did want to use this on the go, does anyone have any recommended solutions for automating this to only activate when off local network? I prefer the configuration I've already done for our home network so wouldn't want to use this app when home.

Quote from AlanC8645 :
People pay for this? Wild.
If you use any developer's software, you should be more than happy to throw them some funds even if it's open source or free.
Last edited by cj0r January 2, 2025 at 08:29 AM.
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Quote from Liz2968 :
Probably because you can manually use the Adguard servers for free on your mobile devices using option 2 here: https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

I believe doing this would provide similar functionality to what this lifetime license provides.
And then ublock origin for your browsers for better control/blocking than what is offered here.
Adguard DNS servers block ONLY at the DNS level which is scant of the blocking/tracking available. The paid version also will filter 3rd party cookies, remove YT ads, firewall, and also pull ads from encrypted websites (which many are now). You can control per app. Some apps do not like MIIM, so you may have to turn off. Mostly financial apps (for obvious reasons).

Most of this is available from free apps but you need to cobble multiple together so this brings all of them into one app and is pressy cheap for lifetime. I have had lifetime for like 4 years now, so maybe less than 50c a device per year and falling. On Android it uses local VPN (you can use one plug) so the all-in-one aspect is very helpful. Blokada is a decent approximation for free (I still think).

Now if you are desktop only I would pass this is more for mobile devices (tablets, phones) where it becomes useful and pretty essential if you have Android (IMHO). On apple devices it can setup as proxy device so it has become better also in newer ios devices.

I combine this with NextDNS which is $20 a year which allows finer-grained DNS level filtering/whitelists which I point at through AG and it also uses QUIC protocol which is faster and secure so your browsing experience is enhanced. This means I do not use the adguard servers, I use NextDNS cloud servers and Adguard Pro points to them where I have mobile and athome profiles.
Last edited by elefante72 January 2, 2025 at 08:37 AM.
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Does it still require waiting for 5-10 seconds and skipping at the beginning of each video?
Nope, it's like the ad doesn't exist and it goes straight to the content.
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