AdGuard: Content Blocker for Samsung and Yandex is an Android tool offered by ADGUARD SOFTWARE LIMITED. It has more than five million downloads on the Play Store. Get rid of every kind of ads, banners, pop-ups, videos etc. and browse the internet without any distractions.
Overview
AdGuard is an ad-blocking application. The most annoying thing on the internet are the ads. Visit any website, you will definitely see some ads. Banners, pop-ups, videos and many types of ads. Some sites even have adult ads that’s totally inappropriate for younger users. With this app, you don’t have to deal with these annoying ads anymore. Just enable the adguard tool, manage the filters and you are good to go surfing the net. Also it’s an open-source application and its entire code is available on GitHub. If you want to take a look at the code or download the code, you can do it on GitHub.
User-Friendly Interface
It has an easy-to-use and interactive interface. When you first start the app, it welcomes you with a message & a short description and takes you to the ad blocker window where you can enable it. On the homescreen, it shows the browsers list and the filter details with the filter counts & rules. You can set the block filters separately for all browsers. It has a button on the top right corner to check for updates and a hamburger icon on the left corner to open the menu. In the menu, you can access various tabs like user rules, whitelist, filters, settings etc.
Custom Rules & Filters
It comes with a lot of filters that you can use for various purposes. It has base filters that help in quality ad blocking. With the tracking protection filter to protect you from being tracked by the trackers. It will help you in maintaining your privacy. There are filters for social media, annoyance, unblocking search ads & self-promotion, mobile ads & anti-adblock killer. Some sites have anti-adblocker that disable the ad blockers. But its anti-adblock killer disables that too and prevents any ads from being displayed. It also has filters based on the languages of the sites that will only work when the site is in a specific language. E.g, Adguard Russian Filter will only block the ads on the russian sites.
Whitelist
There may be some sites on which you don’t want the AdGuard to block the ads. In that case, you can add that site in the whitelist. It works for both site domains as well as certain pages. In this way, you can support your friends’ site or favorite site that provides the best content.
Save Your Data
Banners, pop-up ads, video ads, all types of ads consume your data. Video ads take more data than the others. By blocking the ads, this app not only gives you a distraction free environment but also saves your data that you can spend on other things.
