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How? What does "system level" mean? Sounds like it must be not only system level but manipulating programs?
/edit: Product page and FAQ are non-telling. Finally found the knowledge base which is not linked in the main nav.
They man-in-the-middle HTTPS for example. So yeah, more intrusive than what I would understand as "system level" behavior.
Uhm, yeah.
AdGuard is just a rebrand of a shady Russian advertising company. They were never trusted.
Then they revamped their website and created a lot of astroturfing accounts on Reddit. It was super obvious too, the most basic kind of SEO possible and a bunch of random usernames recently created defending AdGuard on every thread.
Sure let's trust those guys with a root certificate in your devices! Sounds safe!
Source?
Also, what about Blokada?
I've looked into it a little bit after their comment. The company is registered in Cyprus. Not much more official or verifiable info I could find. Their developers seem to be in Russia. For me that was enough to look for alternatives.
I looked for German ones in particular because I'm from Germany, and https://dnsforge.de/ has one with ad blocking and DNS over HTTPS (necessary for Windows which has no choice of DNS over TCP).