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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!
AdGuard has been around for a very long time.
Have there been any actual concerns come up involving their service, which run locally (unless you're using their DNS)?
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).
The only thing I use them for is their public DNS which blocks some ads because I'm too lazy to set up a pihole.