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NEW ACTIVE 15/ 16

The internet without adverts

Test chamber 15. This announcement is ad-free.

The internet without adverts

Every website starts with a question: at which address do I find this name? In the lab two servers of our own answer that question. For adverts, trackers, scam and malware sites they have no answer. That protects every device in the house, the TV and the games console too, without installing anything on them.

Turned away in 90 days1,534,873of 42,922,602 requests, 3.6 %
Entries on the block list466,626
Response time4.8 ms
Dangerous sites caught6

Counted on 2026-11-12, on the first of the two servers.

Experimental setup

  1. 01
    The phone book. Before a device loads a page, it asks for the address. This phone book of the internet is called DNS, and in the lab it is kept by AdGuard Home.
  2. 02
    The black list. 9 lists with 466,626 entries between them: adverts, trackers, phishing, malware, scam sites. Fresh every day. When a device asks for such a name, it gets no address. The advert never even loads. By the way, the most turned-away requests are not ad banners but TVs and streaming apps that want to report home what is being watched.
  3. 03
    Two instead of one. The phone book exists twice, on two different devices, compared every five minutes. Every device in the house knows both. If one fails, it simply asks the other, and nobody notices a thing.
  4. 04
    Encrypted on the way out. Whatever is not blocked, AdGuard looks up, encrypted, with two independent providers in Europe that recognise forged answers. Nobody along the way can read what the house is asking for.
  5. 05
    Our own names. The addresses of our own services are known to a DNS server of our own in the house. Opening the photos at home never even goes out to the internet.
  6. 06
    The search engine. SearXNG asks Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and others on your behalf and shows the results together. The search engines only see the lab, not who is searching. No adverts, no profile, no history.

Why?

Adverts are not just annoying. Ad networks also deliver scam sites and malware, and trackers build a profile out of every click. A blocker in the network protects every device at once, including the ones you cannot install anything on, and the ones guests bring.

Test result

Passed. 1,534,873 times no in 90 days, after 4.8 milliseconds on average.

There was one mishap: in September a download site only worked every other time. It looked like a shaky server. It was a filter: one of the two providers outside blocked the site, and the requests went to both in turn. Since then that site has a route of its own.

AdGuard Home source code SearXNG source code