AdGuard is DNS ad blocking similar to Pi-Hole. It’s a privacy protection software which comprises open-source and shareware products that protect Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, Android and iOS users from unwanted ads, pop-ups, banners, as well as from tracking, obscene content, malware and phishing. Over 5 million people are reported to be using the software in 2018 and 7 million in 2019 with very fast growth. AdGuard is not only an ad blocker, but a whole ad blocking and privacy protection suite, a must-have product if you have a Synology NAS device.

AdGuard AdBlocker effectively blocks all types of advertising on all web pages, even on Facebook, YouTube, and others! ## What AdGuard AdBlocker does: ★ Blocks all ads: video ads (includes YouTube adblock), rich media advertising, unwanted pop-ups (popup blocker), banners and text ads (includes Facebook adblock) ★ Speeds up page loading and saves bandwidth, thanks to the missing ads.

AdGuard download has started! Click the button indicated by the arrow to start the installation. Thank you for choosing AdGuard! Select 'Open' and click 'OK', then wait for the file to be downloaded. In the opened window, drag the AdGuard icon to the 'Applications' folder. Thank you for choosing AdGuard! Hello, This is a bit of a head scratcher with a few specific steps. It looks like, so long as AdGuard is enabled, wifi calling won't work even though it's enabled. Disabling AdGuard and toggling wifi calling will cause it to work, at least until AdGuard is enabled again. Device: Google Pixel 5. Once installed AdGuard Home provides a good looking and easy-to-use onboarding wizard. Compared to Pi-hole, AdGuard is definitely easier to set up. Once completed you are greeted by the AdGuard dashboard and that is where this review will begin. A nice and clean UI. I must say, I do like the AdGuard Home user interface.

AdGuard Home intercepts and filters DNS requests. It works as a DNS server and prevents all the devices in a home network from connecting to the servers that track user browsing. In this step by step guide I will teach you how to install AdGuard on your Synology NAS device using Docker.

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Install Docker via Synology “Package Center”.

Open Docker Package. From the Docker Console, go to Registry and search adguard. Look for adguard/adguardhome and select it, then click Download. You will be prompted to Choose Tag, select latest. Follow the instructions in the image below.

After you click “Select”, the download process of the AdGuard docker container will start. You can click on Image on the Docker Console to see the download progress. The current container is about 47 MB. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Go to File Station and open the docker folder. Inside the docker folder, create a new folder and name it “adguard“. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

Now create two new folders inside the adguard folder that you created at STEP 5: name one “config” and the other “data“. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

Now go back to the Docker Package. After the download is completed from the Docker Console, go to Image, then select the adguard/adguardhome:latest container. Click Launch. Check “Execute container using high privilege”, then click Advanced Settings. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Select Enable auto-restart and Create shortcut on desktop. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Next tab – “Volume“. Select Add Folder. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Choose the config folder, then click Select. Follow the instructions in the image below.

After you click Select, type /opt/adguardhome/conf inside Mount path. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Click Add Folder again. Choose data folder, then click Select. Follow the instructions in the image below.

After you click Select, type /opt/adguardhome/work/data inside Mount path. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Next tab – “Network“. Check “Use the same network as Docker Host”. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Next tab – “Port Settings“ move forward without doing anything (no action needed).
Next tab – “Links“ move forward without doing anything (no action needed).
Next tab – “Environment“. Click the + to add the variable and Value.
On the variable area type: TZ and on the Value Area add: Europe/Bucharest (Select your current Time Zone from this list). After that, click Apply. Follow the instructions in the image below.

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After clicking “Apply“, the screen below will open. Click “Next“. Follow the instructions in the image below.

After clicking “Next“, the screen below will open. Select “Run this container after the wizard is finished” then click “Apply“. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Go back to STEP 1or you will deal with karma 🙂. Do you remember that at STEP 8 you selected the option Create shortcut on desktop? If you did everything correctly, you will find the adguard shortcut on your DSM desktop. Open it, then click Log. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Copy your IP link from the log. It’s your NAS IP ending with :3000 – Follow the instructions in the image below.

Now open your browser and type in http://Synology-ip-address:3000/ and log into AdGuard. Install and Set it up according to your preference. Enjoy!

Note: I installed the AdGuard container on my Synology NAS DS718+
Note: On STEP 7 you can change the container name according to your preference.
Note: Admin Web Interface Error message: Listen tcp 0.0.0.0:80 bind: address already in use. This means that something on your system probably a web server like Apache already listening on port 80. You can solve it by changing port from 80 to 8080. Follow the instructions in the image below.

Note: DNS Server Error message: listen udp 0.0.0.0:53: bind: address already in use.

In this Scenario something else is listening to the local DNS port 53 or AdGuard Home doesn’t have privileges. You have Followed STEP 7 ? If yes and doesn’t work, disable DHCP on your Synology NAS Control Panel / DHCP Server then select “Disable DHCP Server“. Now try again to open AdGuard Home. If this work, don’t miss to go back on STEP 1.

Note: Find out how to update AdGuard container with the latest image.
Note: I recommend you use Reverse Proxy to allow AdGuard to work over an HTTPS connection.
Note: Can I run Docker on my Synology NAS? See the supported models.

This post was updated on Monday / February 1st, 2021 at 10:41 PM

AdGuard AdBlocker effectively blocks all types of advertising on all web pages, even on Facebook, YouTube, and others!

## What AdGuard AdBlocker does:

★ Blocks all ads: video ads (includes YouTube adblock), rich media advertising, unwanted pop-ups (popup blocker), banners and text ads (includes Facebook adblock)
★ Speeds up page loading and saves bandwidth, thanks to the missing ads and pop up windows
★ Protects your privacy by blocking common third-party tracking systems
★ Blocks many spyware, adware and dialer installers
★ Protects you from malware and phishing

## What are the advantages over Adblock or AdBlock Plus?

★ AdGuard ad blocker is really fast and lightweight. It uses half as much memory as other popular solutions: Adblock, Adblock Plus, and even outperforms uBlock Adblocker in some tests.
★ AdGuard can handle most of the anti-adblock scripts. You won't have to turn off the ad blocker any more to be able to visit the websites that are using such scripts.
★ AdGuard is simply better looking and modern (in our opinion).

## How can AdGuard AdBlocker protect your privacy?

Privacy protection is one of the main goals! Just enable the 'Spyware and tracking filter' in AdGuard's settings. It completely removes all forms of tracking from the Internet. AdGuard has one of the largest tracker filters containing more than 5,000 rules. It is even larger than the databases of Ghostery® and Disconnect.

## How to remove social media widgets with AdGuard?

Tired of all the «Like» buttons and similar widgets infesting all of your frequented web pages? Just enable AdGuard's 'Social media filter' and forget about them.

## How can AdGuard AdBlocker protect you from online threats?

At the moment we’ve got more than 2,000,000 harmful web sites on record. AdGuard can block domains known to spread malware, protecting your computer against viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware and adware. AdGuard really lowers risk of virus infections and prohibits access to harmful websites to prevent potential attacks.

## Crypto-jacking protection

Adguard Edge

We did a comprehensive research on cryptojacking, and as a result AdGuard can reliably block most of known crypto-jackers including CoinHive. You can also add some open source filters like NoCoin which will give you an additional layer of protection.

Release notes:
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension/releases

Adguard Firefox

Changelog (short version):

v2.10.8: Filtering log improvements, you can now see and manage cosmetic rules.
v2.9.2: Major performance improvements. Also, thanks to the new cosmetic rules engine, Anti-Adblock scripts are having troubles with detecting ad blocking.
v2.8.6: Hotfix that improves integration mode with the desktop AdGuard version.
v2.8.4: A new way to report ads, tracking, and all kinds of annoyances using our new reporting service.
v2.7.2: Refactoring, Chrome and Firefox extensions share the same code now.
v2.6.5: We've extended the ad blocking engine with new filters types which are yet to be supported by other Adblock extensions (except uBlock Origin - it already supports it): $csp and $important.
v2.5.11: Refactoring, Edge and Chrome extensions share the same code now.
v2.5.8: This release is mostly about fixing bugs. Also, brings some minor improvements to the adblocking engine.
v2.4.13: Handle ad blocking circumvention techniques that use WebSocket and WebRTC. New languages.
v2.4.10: Integration with Chrome DevTools and extended CSS selectors support.
v2.3.8: Added AdGuard Annoyances filter. This filter blocks irritating elements on webpages, including cookie notices, third-party widgets and in-page popups.
v2.2.3: 'Block ads on this site' button now works as intended if several windows are opened.
v2.1.5: Added an option to use 'optimized' filters. Domain security checks are now done in a privacy-friendly way.
v2.0.12: Added subscribe.adblockplus.org links support.
v2.0.9: Added 'inverted whitelist' feature - some people are not happy with 'total' ad blocking.
v2.0: Major update - improved performance, UI, new languages, dozens of bugs are fixed.

In addition to browser extensions, there are also premium AdGuard versions for Windows and Mac.

How do they differ from the browser extension:

+ Block ads in all browsers and even apps.
+ Block ads even better (although it would seem that it just couldn’t be any better :)).
+ Block requests to dangerous sites, instead of just warning about them.
+ Contain Parental Control module. When it is enabled, you can safely leave your children alone with the internet.
+ Allow you to install extensions (userscripts) - Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey analogue for all browsers.
+ (Optional) Integration with the Web of Trust (WOT, mywot.com). With us, you will be assured of reliability of the websites that you are visiting.

Free and Open Source:
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension

Found a bug? Have a problem and need help? Visit our forum: https://forum.adguard.com/

Adguard Adblocker Chrome

• This extension can access your data on all websites.
• This extension can access your data on some websites.
• This extension can manipulate privacy-related settings.
• This extension can access your tabs and browsing activity.
• This extension can store an unlimited amount of client-side data.

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