Andrey Meshkov
Co-founder and CTO of AdGuard.
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The war over data privacy is being waged for 25 years and is far from over. The cost of personal data is constantly increasing. Will users ever be able to decide for themselves what information they are willing to share?
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Disguised trackers threat and how we will address it
So-called disguised trackers is a new way to try and fool ad blockers and get hands on users' personal data. We explain how it's supposed to work... and why it won't work. -
Fake Ad Blockers 2: Now with Cookies and Ad Fraud
Here is a story of how we (once again) found some fake ad blockers on Chrome Web Store — now with cookies and ad fraud. -
AdGuard's comments on the upcoming Chrome's API changes
New Chrome API will make lives of extension-based ad blockers much harder. What to expect and what to do? Our two cents. -
Legacy Safari Extensions are no longer supported: is it the end of powerful ad blockers?
The new Safari version is just around the corner, and it will spell doom for the traditional powerful ad blocking extensions. Or will it? AdGuard breaks it down for you. -
Android Q comes to beta. What does it mean for AdGuard
What does the release of Android Q mean for AdGuard? We answer this question in this Blog article. -
A recap of 2018 in ad blocking
In late December we posted a recap of 2018 from AdGuard's point of view. But the year didn't happen in a vacuum; we are all in this together — ad blocker developers, ad blocker users, and advertisers. So anything that happens in the "world of ad blocking" concerns both us and you, the users. Let's look back at the most noteworthy events in the industry, assess their impact, and try to make some predictions for the next year.
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Our comment on Google Chrome's proposed extensions platform change
You might have already heard about this. Google is going to change Chrome's extension platform. The proposed change in its current state will cripple or even effectively kill a lot of extensions, and it will significantly reduce the capabilities of ad blockers including AdGuard Chrome extension.
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AdGuard Security Notice
We have detected an attack towards AdGuard servers. The most important thing is: AdGuard servers were not compromised. Malefactors used existing databases of email/password pairs previously leaked by different companies. We believe that attackers were able to access some of the accounts, but only few of them which owners used the same compromised email/password pair. If you are not one of them, your personal data was not leaked. We made a desicion to reset all users' passwords anyway, mostly as a preventive measure.
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"Big Star Labs" spyware campaign affects over 11,000,000 people
In the previous article about the Unimania spyware campaign I promised to tell you more about the privacy issues discovered during our automated scan of many Google Chrome extensions. This took me a while, and I apologize for the delay.