It even had a near-death experience (but survived, thankfully). Nowadays, DNSCrypt is becoming less popular. DNSCrypt is an encrypted protocol which can be used for interaction between client and server instead of the regular, unsafe one. One of the most important ones was the addition of DNSCrypt support. With each of them, it was becoming an increasingly more solid product. The road to releaseĪdGuard DNS passed several important milestones on its way to the first official release version. Those are core traits of AdGuard DNS, but it would be more than two years of improving and building upon them before this 'beta' tag could go away. Having said that, even then AdGuard DNS had much of what defines its identity today: the choice between Default and Family options, blocking of trackers and phishing websites. It allowed us to monitor the performance, add new features and overall better the product without needless pressure and tight deadlines. So we called it "beta" for the time being.
It was certainly a completely unexplored avenue for us, so no wonder we felt a bit nervous about releasing AdGuard DNS. The idea of an ad blocking server is not new but there are not too many of those even today. Similar approach had been used before, of course. Instead of filtering web traffic, AdGuard server recognizes DNS requests to ad and tracking servers and instead of a correct IP address returns nothing.ĪdGuard DNS blocks requests to ad and tracking domains It hapened in July 2016, and it was the very first public mention of AdGuard DNS, so why do we only now celebrate the first anniversary?ĭNS-based ad blocking works very differently compared to traditional ad blockers. It feels wrong by now to type that lower case 'g', but I digress. an article appeared in our Blog with a simple title "Adguard DNS (beta)".
Or maybe it's because we've come such a long way during that last year? In any case, let's take a minute to look back at how it all started, inspect what has changed since then, and also try to peek into the future of AdGuard DNS.
Perhaps it's because AdGuard DNS has quite a history prior to the release. One year may seem like not so large of a timespan, but it certainly feels like it to us. This is a special moment for us: it's been exactly one year since the official release of AdGuard DNS - an alternative way to block ads and tracking. There's no shortage of special occasions in December, but we want you to share with us yet another one.
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