When you get ad spammed by an adblocker.....

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• glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why aren’t you using Mullvad or uBlock Origin?

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ooooh boy, this happened yesterday… I’m not using Adguard, I was only still on their mailing list from some time idk when when I tried it, I use uBlock Origin. The post isn’t really about or because I use Adguard, it’s the irony

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    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why do they even have your email address? I never heard of an adblocker that requires registration.

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    • jungekatz@lib.lgbt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have actually used adguard for dns and few other things and i dont remember need to give them my mail id , nor do i get any mails from them

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    • Correct316@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      uBlock Or

      Nice, I was just going to suggest uBlock Origin. Side hack, I use simplelogin.io (or use annonaddy) so that every site get’s a different email address. Easy to turn off emails, and makes you more hack resistant.

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And really I had forgotten I was on their mailing list until their email server reminded me yesterday like that 😂

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AdGuard have a free product called “AdGuard Home” that’s like PiHole but more powerful. It lets you run a DNS server on your own network that blocks ads, and uses encrypted DNS queries (DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS) to prevent your ISP from snooping on the requests. Some ISPs build ad targeting profiles based on the sites you visit, and just using a third-party DNS server doesn’t solve this since it’s still clear-text.

    This lets you block ads on devices that can’t run adblockers, like TVs. It runs well on even the cheapest Raspberry Pi 4B, too.

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  • mikeboltonshair@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ahh yes the only 2 approved ad blockers/vpns

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  • NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AdGuard has a invert allow list that I like. I prefer it to be off on sites by default and enable it when I want to

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    • Deez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you need to unblock a bunch of domains for every new site you visit?

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• Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • falsem@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, the same email every 5 minutes doesn't look intentional.

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    • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah a wacky glitch

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• DefinitelyNotBirds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hilarious lmao

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• godless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Didn’t you post it this morning already? I swear I’ve seen the exact same content earlier.

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I posted it yesterday on a different community and it was going well… Then the post mysteriously disappeared… So here we are again lol

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Post a few hundred more time so that nobody misses it.

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• Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The irony…

  I can’t phantom the thought process that leads to this

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can only assume the email server had a bug yesterday :-)

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    • Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess that makes sense, I just noticed they’re all duplicates.

      With that said, just who the fuck would want a digest about adblocker?

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• BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  AdGuard was my ad blocker of choice on Android for years, but man did they fall off a cliff recently. I used them when you could purchase a forever license (which I don’t even think is an option anymore?), and it was great. All ads would be blocked basically everywhere, whenever they’d sneak through it just meant there was a filter that was out of date and needed to be updated.

  Then about a year ago, the shenanigans started. Non-stop emails like OP is complaining about but also - their service BROKE whenever my phone would switch from data to wifi or vice versa. Like, any time it switched network types, just no internet would work at all. I’d have to force quit AdGuard and suddenly everything was fine. The timing happened when android updated from 12 to 13, so I figured it was something to do with that and emailed customer service. I got a notice that said something like “due to high ticket volume, it may be SEVERAL WEEKS before we get to your ticket or acknowledge it is being worked on, thank you for your patience.” So they’re spamming your inbox non-stop trying to click farm, but they have nobody actually working on the product. I never heard anything ever again (still haven’t…account is still active, email is still the same). I tried reaching out 3 or 4 more times but I’ve never received a response.

  So…yeah fuck em I guess.

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can still buy a lifetime license. I got the family one (9 devices) for $170 a few months back, haven’t received any spam, and am really enjoying the extra features like userscript injection.

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well they did reply to my ticket to apologize and explain, and also posted on their subreddit as to their error in making some changes to their email system that caused duplicate emails to fire out. So I give them credit for that at least

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aaaand no response from my ticket yet, from your experience now not expecting one lol

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    • BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I do hate to say it but I haven’t found any software level ad blocker that was as good as AdGuard. I’ve been using AdAway and it does an okay job but only like 80% as effective if say. Most others I tried were shit.

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• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hmm. I’m on the Adguard mailing list, and they send email very infrequently. And it’s always good stuff, too. Updates about privacy breaches, government policy that affects privacy, etc.

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah same here, I’ve been on that list for maybe years this never happened, I’m by no means disparaging them or saying they do it all the time … Yesterday must have been some glitch lol, I just thought it was funny… First button when you open the email is to purchase😂

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• alphacyberranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “You were supposed to beat them, not join them” - OP probably

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah… It was amazingly persistent… That screenshot doesn’t even show all the emails… They continued for a while after that… But eventually they did stop… I raised a support ticket with them about it just to see what they say, no response yet… But anyway it was comical when it was happening, I thought maybe the DDOS guys were after me since I use lemmy.world ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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• Aatube@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reminds me at the time somebody managed to lag GitHub's emails for several hours by pinging the entire Epic Games group (which consists of basically anyone who linked their GitHub account to their Epic Games account )

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• Stinkywinks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I pirated it, havnt got a single email lol

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  • Spliffman1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hahaha wonder why… I don’t even use it… I think they have removed me from the list now… Was a temporary glitch anyway

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