Adguard Premium uses local VPN technology to filter traffic without ROOT privileges. This means that the VPN server is built right into your device, so there is no need for additional remote connections. After running the app, it immediately starts filtering all your internet bandwidth silently and quickly.
When processing a web page, Adguard Premium does several things at once:
Removes ads and inline tracking code directly from the page.
Checks a page against our database of phishing and malicious sites.
Checks apps downloaded from unknown sources.
Ad blocking
[Added] Support for extended CSS and extended selectors
The extended CSS support is a very important addition in terms of the future (and present) possibilities it opens up for ad blocking. Extended CSS is a module for applying CSS styles with extended selection properties. Basically it means that we will be able to select and therefore block certain items that we could not otherwise block. Currently, we support the following pseudo-classes: -ext-has (: has), -ext-contains (: contains), -ext-matches-css (: matches-css).
“Extended Selector” is a technical term, but what’s behind it? With the extended support for selectors, we can much more easily create rules that were very, very difficult to create before. This applies in particular to the rules required to block items such as “sponsored posts” on Facebook.
[Added] ‘pref.filtered.ports’ added to low level settings – advanced users can now add new ports to filter
[Added] $ websocket content type modifier – it will allow the use of rules written exclusively for WebSocket connections
[Added] $ important rule modifier
[Improved] Increased the maximum length limit of content filtering rules
[Improved] HAR file editor, used for debugging purposes
[Improved] Blocking QUIC connections for Chrome browser
[Fixed] Inconsistent behavior of the rule modifier $ image
User interface
[Added] “Installation date” to the application details screen
[Added] A Quick Settings tile for Android N and above
[Changed] The application management screen is automatically updated when a new application is installed – no need to restart Adguard anymore
[Modified] “Applications and statistics” section renamed to “Application management” and brought to the main menu
[Improved] The filter editor now recognizes lines starting with “!” as comments in filters imported by the user
[Bug Fix] Time format on main screen now follows system settings
Networking
[Added] VPN restart function
[Changed] IPv4 connections now have priority over IPv6 connections
[Fix] Wi-Fi calling for AT&T
[Improved] Adguard automatically detects when Adguard certificate is moved to system certificate storage (help with https filtering in Android N +)
[Fixed] Problem with traffic passing through the firewall
Compatibility issues resolved:
– SoundHound
– Skype
– Google Allo
– ru.yota.android
– Roboform
– Yandex mail
– Bria
– Apple Music
– Google Duo
– SwiftKey
– Panda Antivirus
– se.feomedia.quizkampen.ru.lite
