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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Privacy Focused Adblocker for Apple Devices (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by rebiots@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What do you think of AdGuard adblocker for iOS and Mac? Is the adblocker safe? I'm currently using 1Blocker but I'm no longer satisfied.

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[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

someone has recently found Adguard make some really weird DNS requests upon installation: https://lemm.ee/post/26798423

https://lemmy.ml/post/13144346

NextDNS should do the job.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You linked FUD.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Is it though? The unusual requests were pretty obvious right from the beginning.

(Of course, this is Android not iOS, so maybe that app is cleaner, but there aren't many iOS users around to test it.)