Reviews for AdGuard VPN — Privacy & Security
AdGuard VPN — Privacy & Security by Adguard Software Ltd
Review by HonestReviews
Rated 1 out of 5
by HonestReviews, 2 years ago9-9-24: frequently drops connection and also your wifi connection. usually only one or two ips availalble or none at all, sometimes help by required rinstalls and they can't remember who you are. Bunch of amateurs. browsec is better, so is urban,so is cyberghost.
Sad mozila can't attract competent programmers
7-4-23 update: a bad joke. can't keep your id, takes forever to connect. free servers reported as down. One BS problem after another who needs it? Browser VPN 100% better. Don't waste your time with this. Maybe it's ok if you PAY, but I doubt it.
5-2-23: still not using it. too slow, too many problems connecting to servers,remembering account. using browsec (no affiliation) much more stable, ez connect, fast enuf.
4-7-23-stopped using it, unstable, SLOW SLOW SLOW to connect. A real PITA to use it. Can't even remember which users have accounts half the time. Drops connections, IPs offline,stalled connections. Browsec is much better-I have no commercial interest-personal exprience only.
11-25-22: i had high hopes for this addon because it worked well the first 2 months, then it suddenly went to hell. I'm guessing they got a lot more users based on the good review as it was largely unknown. Either that or they don't like I haven't paid them anything. And I never will because their addon sucks now.
acts like it's being hacked-directs to pages you never clicked on.
very slow to get any server response when connecting. drops connections or proxy cannot do dns lookups. Often servers unavailable and listed as "offline". Started out good and gradually got worse and worse. Now using browsec often which is much quicker to connect and much more stable, but with fewer ips. I have not found a really good "free" proxy yet. They all pretty much suck. So far browsec is the best.
10-2-22-slight improvement but still sucky. Can't connect to IPs, half of the time. Gives message offline for all except maybe one or two ips. Had to go to browsec vpn much more reliable and not a PITA to connect. Little faster on the error messages, but still a PITA to use it. Try browsec, or setup vpn. 90% of the so called free vpns are either not free or crap. Not worth your time.
9-2-22: This started off as the best free vpn available. Now at about 4 months out it has gone to hell and is crappy as all the other "free" VPNS.
I went to the trouble to post this review because it is so bad now. SLOWWWW to load. SLOOOWWW to give error messages due to other reasons. Just damn slow you grow old waiting for a response for their servers. Half the time the dummies running this cannot tell if you have an account or not and offer up a new account window that then disappears if you reload the browser. Gone to hell same as all the other lame "free" vpns out there. It's not FREE if we have to waste our time getting the pos to work! The guys running this are smart. But not smart enough to deal with their new user load. Also it does not prevent DNS leads from browserleaks.org and shows the home DNS server whichi is a dead giveaway of your home IP. This is WITH their so called adguard adblock enabled which is supposed to use THEIR DNS. Guess what that shows but SO does your HOME DNS, VOILA, we now know where you are and probably WHO you are. Still lacking: a free vpm that is ANY GOOD with residential IPs that does not leak DNS info. I should say this is for chrome, but I am sure the same is true for FFOX.
Sad mozila can't attract competent programmers
7-4-23 update: a bad joke. can't keep your id, takes forever to connect. free servers reported as down. One BS problem after another who needs it? Browser VPN 100% better. Don't waste your time with this. Maybe it's ok if you PAY, but I doubt it.
5-2-23: still not using it. too slow, too many problems connecting to servers,remembering account. using browsec (no affiliation) much more stable, ez connect, fast enuf.
4-7-23-stopped using it, unstable, SLOW SLOW SLOW to connect. A real PITA to use it. Can't even remember which users have accounts half the time. Drops connections, IPs offline,stalled connections. Browsec is much better-I have no commercial interest-personal exprience only.
11-25-22: i had high hopes for this addon because it worked well the first 2 months, then it suddenly went to hell. I'm guessing they got a lot more users based on the good review as it was largely unknown. Either that or they don't like I haven't paid them anything. And I never will because their addon sucks now.
acts like it's being hacked-directs to pages you never clicked on.
very slow to get any server response when connecting. drops connections or proxy cannot do dns lookups. Often servers unavailable and listed as "offline". Started out good and gradually got worse and worse. Now using browsec often which is much quicker to connect and much more stable, but with fewer ips. I have not found a really good "free" proxy yet. They all pretty much suck. So far browsec is the best.
10-2-22-slight improvement but still sucky. Can't connect to IPs, half of the time. Gives message offline for all except maybe one or two ips. Had to go to browsec vpn much more reliable and not a PITA to connect. Little faster on the error messages, but still a PITA to use it. Try browsec, or setup vpn. 90% of the so called free vpns are either not free or crap. Not worth your time.
9-2-22: This started off as the best free vpn available. Now at about 4 months out it has gone to hell and is crappy as all the other "free" VPNS.
I went to the trouble to post this review because it is so bad now. SLOWWWW to load. SLOOOWWW to give error messages due to other reasons. Just damn slow you grow old waiting for a response for their servers. Half the time the dummies running this cannot tell if you have an account or not and offer up a new account window that then disappears if you reload the browser. Gone to hell same as all the other lame "free" vpns out there. It's not FREE if we have to waste our time getting the pos to work! The guys running this are smart. But not smart enough to deal with their new user load. Also it does not prevent DNS leads from browserleaks.org and shows the home DNS server whichi is a dead giveaway of your home IP. This is WITH their so called adguard adblock enabled which is supposed to use THEIR DNS. Guess what that shows but SO does your HOME DNS, VOILA, we now know where you are and probably WHO you are. Still lacking: a free vpm that is ANY GOOD with residential IPs that does not leak DNS info. I should say this is for chrome, but I am sure the same is true for FFOX.
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