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AdGuard is a Russian company, with Russian engineers, the majority of AdGuard developers and other employees working from Moscow, registered in Cyprus. Not a gr

AdGuard is a Russian company, with Russian engineers, the majority of AdGuard developers and other employees working from Moscow, registered in Cyprus. Not a great recipe. Hard pass on security grounds.

tills13 3y ago
It's open source you can verify it yourself.
- Sammi 3y ago
  Good luck with that.
- mrcarruthers 3y ago
  Technically, yes you can. But do you really have the time to sit down to understand a piece of software enough to know if it's doing anything nefarious?
  - Sammi 3y ago
    It only takes one obfuscated line of code buried somewhere deep where you wouldn't expect it.
    - illiac786 3y ago
      True. But I think they have the means to do that on a lot of (non-russia-associated) repositories. They even probably wouldn't pick this one because it's under too much scrutiny.
modzu 3y ago
and your macbook was built in china. uh oh
- seanieb 3y ago
  Apple is an American company and we’re not actively paying for a hot war against China.
19h 3y ago
It’s open source software. MacPaw lists Russian-developed software as a risk because the government can access your data at any time — this is self-hosted open-source software though. The FSB can’t just access your local server with an arbitrary court order. Therefore this doesn’t feel like a legitimate concern but more like Russophobia, which I understand but also think is utterly unasked for as I know first hand how much Russian developers are suffering from the stupidity of their government.
- seanieb 3y ago
  You're swapping out your DNS for a Russian controlled DNS service. Seems dumb IMO.
  - illiac786 3y ago
    Russian controlled? It runs on your network and it's open source. Where is the "russian control" on this?