AdGuard is a … Ad Blocking software as you can probably infer from their name.
The way that software works is similar to the browser extensions / addons you used on Chromium or Firefox, install it, customize it, forget it. Works most of the time.
This is just a simple note of what filters I enabled, so I don’t have to search through other PCs while setting up a new one.
Windows PC
On Windows AdGuard software, there’s two parts, regular filters and DNS filters.
Regular Filters
Most of the filters I used are included within the software, you just have to go to “Add a filter” to select them
- AdGuard Base Filter – Ad Blocking
- AdGuard Mobile Ads Filter – Ad Blocking
- AdGuard URL Tracking Filter – Privacy
- AdGuard Tracking Protection Filter – Privacy
- Fanboy’s Enhanced Tracking List – Privacy
- Peter Lowe’s Blocklist – Privacy
- Fanboy’s Anti-Facebook List – Privacy
- AdGuard Social Media Filter – Social Widgets
- AdGuard Annoyances Filter – Annoyances
- Adblock Warning Removal List – Annoyances
- Fanboy’s Annoyances – Annoyances
- Web Annoyances Ultralist – Annoyances
- Online Malicious URL Blocklist – Security
- NoCoin Filter List – Security
- Halflife PC – Chinese Cosmetic Filter
DNS Filters
- OISD Basic – OISD.nl, combined super filter, Basic is “Lite” version.
- anti-AD for AdGuard – Chinese DNS Filter
- AdGuard DNS Filter
Android
AdGuard on mobile have a weird system. They put AdGuard DNS Filter in “Other” section of the content blocking filters, but there’s also a DNS Filter…
Content Blocking Filters
- AdGuard Base Filter – Ad Blocking
- AdGuard Mobile Ads Filter – Ad Blocking
- AdGuard URL Tracking Filter – Privacy
- AdGuard Tracking Protection Filter – Privacy
- Fanboy’s Enhanced Tracking List – Privacy
- Peter Lowe’s Blocklist – Privacy
- Fanboy’s Anti-Facebook List – Privacy
- AdGuard Social Media Filter – Social Widgets
- AdGuard Annoyances Filter – Annoyances
- Adblock Warning Removal List – Annoyances
- Fanboy’s Annoyances – Annoyances
- Web Annoyances Ultralist – Annoyances
- Online Malicious URL Blocklist – Security
- NoCoin Filter List – Security
- AdGuard DNS Filter – Other
- Halflife Mobile – Chinese Cosmetic Filter
- Adgk Mobile – Chinese Cosmetic Filter
DNS Filters
- OISD Basic – OISD.nl, combined super filter, Basic is “Lite” version.
- anti-AD for AdGuard – Chinese DNS Filter
- AdGuard DNS Filter
Because these devices might have limited power, it’s not suggested to load too many DNS filtering rules (like the OISD Full version).
If you want to, you can setup a AdGuard Home instance, or use some third party DNS resolver such as AdGuard DNS or NextDNS. These can allow you to manage DNS filtering at a higher level, offload most of the long rules that potentially slow down AdGuard on your device.
