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[Questions] About adguard connect domains #3439

Closed temporallyaccount closed 4 years ago

temporallyaccount commented 4 years ago

Please provide me details about below each domains purposes.

adbuker commented 4 years ago

@Rru247, to tell the long story short, we use api.adguard.com for back-end purposes, local.adguard.org for hosting the userscript to be injected. As for ocsp checks - browser extension doesn't intercept https traffic on the kernel(driver) level, but only on the client (browser) level. As you can see the "power" of browser extension much less than the app's one - the first reason exactly is in the different approach to traffic filtering. Thus, the presence of the oscp checks is a product of the differences in the approaches