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How Lockdown firewall is different compared to the AdGuard DNS Protection #95

Closed georgysavva closed 2 years ago

georgysavva commented 3 years ago

Hi. I am trying to understand does the Lockdown firewall work the same as AdGuard DNS Protection? AdGuard DNS Protection blocks bad calls on the device and it does it in all apps as the lockdown firewall does. Are there any differences that I am unaware of? Thank!

branigan commented 3 years ago

Lockdown is a Local DNS servers that blocks listed ads websites, meanwhile AdGuard DNS (or other services) are external DNS servers. With external DNS servers you have to trust on third party company for the privacy part also you can't whitelist or blacklist specific website.

georgysavva commented 3 years ago

Hi. Thanks for your reply and explanation of how Lockdown is functioning. You are right that AdGuard offers the external DNS server solution, but as I far as I am aware we also offer local DNS filtering on the device, see: https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/dns-filtering-android https://kb.adguard.com/en/ios/solving-problems/how-to-add-your-own-filter

So it means that Lockdown and AdGuard offer the same type of protection?