It's hard to believe, but on July 26 AdGuard DNS turned 6 years old.

Let's follow the journey that AdGuard DNS has made from a half-baked experimental project to a full-fledged product with more than 50 servers in 15+ locations.

A lot has happened in this time – and I have so much to tell you. This is a big moment for us, which we have been steadily moving toward since 2016. Sadly, most are too busy raking in cash to care how their networks are being abused, so I choose to ensure they get as little cash off of my visit as possible until they get the point.Today we are releasing AdGuard DNS 2.0. As such, I'll be locking them out until they clean up their act.

Would you visit a mall where any ad signage could have a guy with a loaded gun hiding behind it, picking targets that look at the sign at random? That's (metaphorically speaking) what the Web has become to most users today. If advertisers want to monetize my visit, they darn well better step up to make sure their content is safe too. As it is, being forced to watch a 1 minute ad before a 20 second clip on YouTube, or always having to watch my back for sneaky download attempts, or worse yet, being suddenly redirected to yet another 'Congratulations, you won' page, means I'll go out of my way to smash all advertising flat on my networks. If we had some kind of guarantee that one of the 'ads' wasn't a malicious drive-by payload delivery instead, I'm sure the drive to block ads wouldn't be so strong right now.

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