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AdGuard AdBlocker

by Adguard Software Ltd

v5.3.0.29 Updated Mar 19, 2026 28.51MiB
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★ 4.66
67.4K reviews
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Description

AdGuard ad blocker effectively blocks all types of ads on all web pages, even on Facebook, YouTube and others! What AdGuard ad blocker does: • Blocks all ads: video ads (includes YouTube adblock), rich media advertising, unwanted pop-ups, 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 of AdGuard 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 adblock circumvention scripts • AdGuard is simply better looking and modern (in our opinion) How can AdGuard ad blocker protect your privacy? Privacy protection is one of the main goals! Just enable the "AdGuard Tracking Protection filter" in AdGuard settings. It completely removes all forms of tracking from the Internet. AdGuard has one of the largest tracker filter lists containing more than 10,000 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 "Social media filter" and forget about them. How can AdGuard ad blocker protect you from online threats? At the moment we’ve got more than 2,000,000 harmful websites on record. AdGuard can block domains known to spread malware, protecting your computer against viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, and adware. AdGuard really lowers the risk of virus infections and prohibits access to harmful websites to prevent potential attacks. Crypto-jacking protection We did comprehensive research on crypto-jacking and, as a result, AdGuard can reliably block most of the known crypto-jackers including CoinHive. You can also add some open source filters like NoCoin which will give you an additional layer of protection. Why does AdGuard require permissions? "Access your data for all websites" and "Access browser tabs": both permissions are necessary for AdGuard to apply all kinds of cosmetic processing to the pages' content. Naive ad blocking would simply block ad servers, and leave broken elements and first-party ads on the pages. AdGuard applies special cosmetic rules to make pages look clean and tidy. "Access browser activity during navigation": this permission is necessary to keep track of navigation events in order to apply rules when the time is right. Release notes: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension/releases Free and Open Source: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension
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Reviews (200 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-27
Adan Santos

This extension has actually brought back sponsored and suggested posts to facebook, that FB Purity removed. Deactivated and installed uBlock Origin Lite, and the sponsored and suggested post are gone again.

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-27
travis lear

Dont like it. It always says "something went wrong" on the tray icon. I've gone through all the "contact us" helps, online suggestions etc etc. I should get paid for all the time I have spent trying to fix "something went wrong", its so annoying.

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-27
EVANSON HAKEEM

It used to take 10 minutes to fix a broken YouTube ad. Now we have to wait 3 days for a 'stable update' because of these rule limits and the store review process. I’m seeing ads for the first time in 5 years because the 'Quick Fix' dynamic rules hit their 5,000 limit almost immediately.

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-26
Google User (M. B.)

Thanks to MV3, these Adguard filters are automatically disabled on Chrome: AdGuard Tracking Protection filter and Dandelion Sprout's Anti-Malware List. uBlock origin is still available or switch to Firefox or add Tampermonkey to you get much better protection.

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-06
Daryl Bean

My ad blocker has not worked for two days can't do anything to make it work.

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-21
Polivatube

Not fluid with YouTube...Big delay, not at all practical.. I delete

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-14
Radulescu Dorin

It sucks shi t in the as hole

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-13
PokerusFreak

Got this because UBOlite stopped functioning on Youtube. This also does not function on Youtube, and instead skips full videos and playlists. Does block the ads, but also fully blocks any videos I try to watch which is the opposite of helpful

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-12
R. B.

BUGGY, MAKES CHROME SLOW TO A CRAWL IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE WINDOW OPEN WITH MULTIPLE TABS. COMPLETELY UNOPTIMIZED AND BLOATED

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-09
maiosh wf

My YouTube access was restricted, and after installing this plugin, YouTube videos won’t play.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-22
Riddhesh Rajwadkar

This content isn't available, try again later." problem. Help needed

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-16
Seth Ue

2026/1/16 don't work on youtube anymore

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-24
Daniel Harrison

App is compromised, injects unblockable "Add spark to browsing" ads in multiple locations including the element zapper.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-21
Kam

Windows Chrome extension keeps disabling protection by itself.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-17
AegeanPulse

Stop bombarding people with stupid notification. No one wants to pay for your useless extension

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-13
John Carter

NOT WORKING, ADS AT THE BEGGING OF EVERYTHING I LOOK AT :(

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-10
DigitalBeholder

Does not work for Twitch

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-28
Jatoxo

popup self promotion ads and no toggle to disable them

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-25
Oliver C

Useless, clicking "block ads manualls" does nothing

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-25
EnigmaticRPG

Slow and misses ads more and more. Cannot report unsupported sites without a github account. Something changed for the worse recently, as you can see by the flood of fake reviews. I miss uBo, which this was a very poor replacement for (when it worked at all).

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-24
anatoliy

your adguard does not block ad from minigame mail ru

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-21
Jim Falkenberg

It's the most frustrating app I have ever used. It blocks stuff I want to see. And you have to be incredibly tech-savvy to understand it. Whoever designed the app did so from a programmer's perspective, not from an average-day user's perspective.

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-04
Derp Herp

AdGuard has nothing but open contempt for the Google Chrome version of this AdBlocker. As of today (04/11/2025), the filters haven't updated since 28th of October while the version I have running in Edge was not only updated today, but runs EasyList as well (the Google Chrome version does not). And sure enough, the one from Edge works a lot better. Spoke to AdGuard support about this, and their "fix" has proven to be entirely useless, so this review is my attempt to warn others about this version. Get AdGuard for another browser, because the Google Chrome one suffers from the AdGuard team's open and blatant neglect.

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-01
Kim Peter

It used to work well on YouTube, but since the last update it's not working very well. Keep getting Pop up ads before new video starts. Please fix it. Thanks

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-30
Gabriel Fresa

It really used to be good, but it blocks just about nothing, now. It's way better on the phone. They give almost no love to the chrome browser.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-29
Sobuj Ali

bad, not working

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-28
Rubin Ibrahim

this extension no longer works

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-28
Ken Carlson

Updated recently to add in its own ads, including a popup ad when launching the browser.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-27
Ollie F

On 10/27/2025 after an update this extension no longer works. I can't fix it. It used to be really good, now doesn't even work.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-26
Gone Fish'n

watered down where by its not worth having any longer, was once a useful product.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-26
Jak M

This went from a Chrome extension to avoid ads to a Chrome extension that forces ads onto your screen. This extension will continually put ads over anything you are browsing now.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-26
Daniel

trash. 10 out 10 will never get again.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-26
Alex shourav

very bad extension, don't work this extension

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-25
Simon

dosent work corectly on youtube also when is activated is bugged, slowing down heavily and making youtube toon work very slowly, so at all the good adblocker what was in past now turned on usssles app, please fix ASAP... Thank you!

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-24
Qwerty Official

Doesn't work on YouTube anymore :-(

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-23
Sarah-Ann Ogilvie

The extensions no longer seems to be working.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-17
Nate Grey (X-Man)

update made it so redirects and pop ups happen when they didnt before. only change is it sends me to adgaurd generated page where it seeks a pat on the back for stopping the redirect or pop up destination. like thanks but I liked it better when i forgot how many bad actors there online because my ad blocked worked. this even when youve bought pro doesn't let you forget. So those bad actors inckude google who made ad block usless. i mis ublockorigin

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-17
Janis

just updated and it's not working at all.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-10
Nguyễn Trung Nguyên

takes a long time to start up, takes up a lot of resources and causes severe performance loss

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-08
rod buster

The user goes through the trouble of blocking ads, and a few days later, the same ads are back again. You should change the name to "momentary ad blocker"...

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-06
Vasile Vida Year 12

horrible

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-26
Matthew King

This *used* to be good. Now sites like facebook, youtube and instagram won't/can't show any content as long as this extension is running. The sites are now causing THIS extension to literally filters out the content as ad content. I use this on my android phone, and literally see no ads removed, mobile is slow as hell (disabling the addon and the mobile is fast again), app wants me to pay for more blocking although nothing is being blocked. If I could give 0 or even negative stars I would. If the author can't fix this, then the extension can be discontinued! This should be classified as 'harmful to device'.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-21
SteveK DJ

It doesn't block too many sites, many of them seem like they don't want to work.. or did they agree with the companies?! That wouldn't be a good thing!

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-17
Tyree Davis

takes a long time to start vids this adblocker sucks

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-29
Amol

Not good. I found a better extension. I use one called Genius Adblocker, and it works on all ads with more advanced features: 1) Genius Adblocker Pro (Best All-in-One Ad Blocking and Security) ______ 2) Ublock

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-22
Syed zeeshan Hassan

I have been using this extension for quite a long time, but now this won't hold ads anymore on YT.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-22
James

Does not block Ads on YouTube anymore.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-18
Shashi Kumar

worst application not even a single ad blocked its not working dont download it dont waste your time

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-18
Asan Habib

Doesn't work properly!

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-08
Mostak Ahmed

Custom filters will be coming back soon. ---Never came

Permissions (12)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu cookies Can read and modify browser cookies declarativeNetRequest Can block or redirect network requests declarativeNetRequestFeedback privacy Can change privacy-related browser settings scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs unlimitedStorageuserScripts webNavigation Can monitor navigation events webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 5.3.0.29
Updated Mar 19, 2026
Size 28.51MiB
First Seen Mar 29, 2026