All our users know how to block ads. Be it Windows, Android, Mac or iOS – you simply install Adguard app, and the ads are gone. But now there is a different, yet very simple way to filter ads – Adguard DNS.



Probably, not everyone knows what exactly is DNS and how it can help us to block ads, so let us explain it real quick. Simplifying it a lot, one can say that DNS (Domain Name System) is a system that translates websites ‘names’ into something browser can understand – IP addresses. Thus, each time you go to a website, your browser sends a request to a special server. That server either redirects the request to another server or replies with an IP address.



But how can it help us block ads? We create our own DNS server, which you can tell your browser to send all requests to. Our server works as a redirect DNS server: each request will be directed to its original destination, except for ads. This way, instead of ads there will be only empty spaces. Simple, isn’t it?

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