Why Everyone Should Use an Ad Blocker (AdGuard Interview)

Ad blockers have broad permissions to intercept all your web traffic—which means you need to know which ones to trust. Henry interviewed the CTO and co-founded of AdGuard about why they pivoted from data collection to privacy protection, how DNS filtering differs from local ad blocking, and Apple's revolutionary new API that lets ad blockers work system-wide on iOS without ever seeing your traffic.

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0:00:00 INTRO

00:06:04 PRE-SNOWDEN VS. POST-SNOWDEN

00:07:58 TYPES OF FILTERING

00:15:03 LOCAL FILTERING VS. DNS & VPN

00:18:14 INTERCEPTING WEB TRAFFIC CONCERNS

00:21:27 ADGUARD VS. BROWSER SOLUTIONS

00:26:15 ADGUARD EXTENSION VS. OTHERS

00:31:15 ADGUARD FILTERING VS. OTHERS

00:32:04 ADGUARD HOME

00:34:08 PRICING STRUCTURE

00:35:52 BASED IN CYPRUS?

00:38:25 OPEN SOURCE?

00:41:04 THE AD BLOCKING ECOSYSTEM

00:44:26 MITIGATING ATTACKS

00:51:13 THE ROLE OF AD BLOCKING

00:54:37 APPLE'S NEW API

00:57:38 COMPARISON TO DNS FILTERING

00:58:56 ETA FOR THESE UPDATES

00:59:43 APPLE'S PATTERN

01:00:58 BLOCKING APPLE DOMAINS

01:02:28 WRAPPING UP

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