I recently installed the adguard add-on and set it up. But when I use the canyoublockit.com site, I still see adds. Turn my AdBlockPlus on my browser back on and ads are gone. How can I make AdGuard better?
First picture it the site just using AdGuard. Second is using AdBlockPlus chrome add-on.
I dont think thats it. Same in Firefox and Edge. I know AdGuard is working as I see statistics, but its just not blocking as much as ABP. I searched and found other blocklists and added them to AG, but no help. This is kinda weird. Maybe its just that because the test site isnt a “real” ad site?
Im not home right now but my home PC is running Widows. I changed DNS setting for TCP4 to manual and pointed to IP of my HA. Previous to that, I went into my Google mesh router and manually entered the DNS IP as well to cover all devices in my house that connect to that router.
I have no secondary DNS cofigured as far as I know. And I did test yesterday by changing the DNS in my google mesh router to something else and then when trying to browse to a website, I was unable to. So to me, that proves the only DNS I am using is AdGuard.
I will try to block my PC tonight and try @rossk suggestions.
BTW, the nature of ad blocking mechanisms are different between browser plug-ins like ABP, and DNS-based blocking like AdGuard / Pi-Hole.
In simplest terms, the former analyze the page via your browser’s rendering engine, so comprehensive blocking is more feasible. OTOH, the latter blocks the ads that are served via ad sites / addresses.
If you read the testing page, the same testing sites you had also mentioned some of those aspects.