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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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luckygecko
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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.
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
luckygecko
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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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Jan 03, 2025 07:43 AM
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darkmwarJan 03, 2025 07:43 AM
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Would this block Disney /Hulu IOS App Ads ?
Jan 03, 2025 08:15 AM
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namlookJan 03, 2025 08:15 AM
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Quote from dcmanryan :
Websites have caught on and many links I try now know and detect I'm using an ad blocker.
I just stop frequenting those sites that detect an ad blocker. They don't have anything important enough to me to deal with their ads.
Jan 03, 2025 10:26 AM
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dshopprJan 03, 2025 10:26 AM
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Quote from darkmwar :
Would this block Disney /Hulu IOS App Ads ?
Nope. But it will block if you open them in browser!
Jan 03, 2025 12:56 PM
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princerockJan 03, 2025 12:56 PM
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Does it block ads in the Google App on an iPhone? I know their free version already blocks ads in Safari. If I set the DNS manually to their server, I will get the same result as their paid version, right?
Another question: does enabling the paid version use more battery? I heard there were (are?) issues when the ads are blocked some apps may keep trying and logs millions of DNS inquiries, which drains the battery
Jan 03, 2025 02:10 PM
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b0bzillaJan 03, 2025 02:10 PM
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I bought it last time it was on sale. While it does block ads, it does so at a cost. As others have mentioned it makes it difficult to use sites like slickdeals because of the way it handles links on site. It also slows down other sites and can will get errors trying to access them. I contacted AdGuard support and they had wacky suggestions such as turning off my antivirus. Like I said, when it works it's great but it will come with many quarks that AdGuard either can't or is not willing to fix.
Jan 03, 2025 02:23 PM
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YW55Jan 03, 2025 02:23 PM
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If you want to block ads on your mobile device then the free NextDNS service is much better than AdGuard's DNS. If you sign up for a free account you can customize whitelists so it's not blocking all the external links from Slickdeals, block certain websites like social media during certain times, etc. It'll even block ads in Android Apps like the Slickdeals app. I would give the free version of NextDNS a try before start paying for adblockers.

uBlock Origin is great for desktops.
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Quote from b0bzilla :
I bought it last time it was on sale. While it does block ads, it does so at a cost. As others have mentioned it makes it difficult to use sites like slickdeals because of the way it handles links on site. It also slows down other sites and can will get errors trying to access them. I contacted AdGuard support and they had wacky suggestions such as turning off my antivirus. Like I said, when it works it's great but it will come with many quarks that AdGuard either can't or is not willing to fix.
I use this extension on Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/...-redirect/

https://chromewebstore.google.com...hlon?hl=en

It helps to auto skip the affiliate links for most sites. You may need to whitelist some sites as you start using it, and some sites will break so you can turn it off manually in the meantime and then back on when you are finished with that site.

After the initial setup period, it works great though. I wish I could use this for iOS.

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Jan 03, 2025 05:25 PM
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SliqdealerJan 03, 2025 05:25 PM
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Quote from Jmoney611 :
Does nobody have Ublock origins? I've yet to watch a YouTube ad since they started putting ads on vids because of ublock
No ublock on iOS.
Jan 03, 2025 05:48 PM
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SliqdealerJan 03, 2025 05:48 PM
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Best device or network level ad blocker: DNS ad blocker of your choice (Adguard, Mullvad, pihole, NextDNS). You can set your browser to use a different non-ad-blocking DNS to avoid problems with overblocking and block ads more selectively at the browser-level.
Best desktop browser ad blocker: uBlock Origin (soon to be only available for Firefox)
Best Android browser ad blocker: Kiwi or Firefox with uBlock Origin (soon Firefox only)
Best iOS browser ad blocker: Safari with Adguard
Jan 03, 2025 05:51 PM
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BeigeNose688Jan 03, 2025 05:51 PM
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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.
This is such a moving target. I have a set of (free) ad blockers that work 99% of the time. Then every 8 months or so YouTube tells me to turn off my ad blocker. I do for a while and then turn them back on and I'm good for a bit.
Jan 03, 2025 09:28 PM
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configsysJan 03, 2025 09:28 PM
370 Posts
I was a skeptic at first since I already have a piHole configured but I went in on the last deal and I can honestly say I was pleasantly surprised with AdGuard. It does a good job filtering out ads but what surprised me most it completely blocked ads from the free version of Pandora so now I constantly listen to it on my phone. I gave a license to a friend of mine and he says it blocked ads on Youtube Music.
Jan 03, 2025 10:40 PM
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WaitWhaatJan 03, 2025 10:40 PM
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FYI: AdGuard was originally founded in Moscow, Russia in 2009, but the company moved its headquarters to Cyprus in 2014
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Jan 03, 2025 11:05 PM
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pharaoh248Jan 03, 2025 11:05 PM
478 Posts
Quote from YW55 :
If you want to block ads on your mobile device then the free NextDNS service is much better than AdGuard's DNS. If you sign up for a free account you can customize whitelists so it's not blocking all the external links from Slickdeals, block certain websites like social media during certain times, etc. It'll even block ads in Android Apps like the Slickdeals app. I would give the free version of NextDNS a try before start paying for adblockers.

uBlock Origin is great for desktops.
Just FYI for others — I whitelisted the domain kqzyfj.com (seems to the redirector that SlickDeals uses) in NextDNS, and now clicking on links in the SlickDeals iOS app works
Jan 04, 2025 09:18 AM
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sasicbitJan 04, 2025 09:18 AM
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Quote from elefante72 :
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.
The DNS level of blocking almost becomes a must when you are using apps wherever you cannot install an ad-blocker plugin. Think of games, social media apps and a few other apps like Reddit clients where you cannot even control the ads within the app.

If you install a DNS-wide ad-blocker and point your router and/or DNS resolvers to these custom DNS servers, you and anyone who uses your network will be safe from the scum of today's internet that is the ads.

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Jan 04, 2025 11:33 AM
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vonDubenshireJan 04, 2025 11:33 AM
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Quote from lyrebird :
So if I use this in my iPhone, I won't be able to click through deals link, right?
I just whitelist them... just unblock any blocked domain you need on the client app or the full dn DNS if you're using that too

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