# AdGuard 78 Hacker News commenters recommended AdGuard and 8 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Recommended as a strong ad blocker for Safari and iOS that works across devices. Common caveat: the iOS version could be better and misses some annoyances. ## Why people recommend it - Blocks ads well on Safari (7 comments): "There are really good ad blockers on mobile these days. I use AdGuard for Safari and it's as good as uBlock on desktop Firefox." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912791)) "AdGuard works great, it has a native Safari extension and I don’t see a single ad on there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324272)) "I play block blast classic mode with adguard and don't see any ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221370)) - Works across devices and DNS (4 comments): "I can't recommend AdGuard enough. It works across devices, and just does all the DNS level blocking everywhere." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984021)) "I use AdGuard as ad blocker, blocks ads as a browser extension and ads on websites and apps as a mobile app." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256281)) "AdGuard content blockers to catch some web ads and annoyances that cannot be caught via DNS." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322085)) - Blocks YouTube ads most of the time (3 comments): "AdGuard, which, AFAICT, Just Works™ and even blocks YouTube ads most of the time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301368)) "AdGuard manages to successfully block YouTube ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46052441)) "I don't have YouTube ads with Safari and AdGuard" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523247)) - Strong language and custom blocklists (2 comments): "Especially Adguard its language blocklists have much, much less breakage and missed ads than Easylist." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102932)) "my appreciation of the block lists i have configured in adguard just notched up a few more points!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138688)) ## What people warn about - Misses some ads and annoyances (3 comments): "AdGuard which works for some annoyances, but by far not all" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452684)) "They also do not work on Youtube ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592809)) "AdGuard just blocks much less." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073564)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [uBlock Origin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ublock-origin.md): 765 recommend - [uBlock Origin Lite](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ublock-origin-lite.md): 148 recommend - [Wipr 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wipr.md): 41 recommend - [uBlock](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ublock.md): 32 recommend - [AdBlock](https://hackerapproved.com/p/adblock.md): 18 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "AdGuard", https://hackerapproved.com/p/adguard/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).