NOTE: The “Send statistics for ad filters usage” option is disabled by default. Nothing will be sent unless user manually enables it to help us improve our blocking filters.
Let us begin with the definition of what ad filters are. Thanks to these filters, AdGuard removes ads from websites.
They are compiled manually based on your complaints about ads on any of the websites. This is one of the most important elements of AdGuard’s work—namely, the quality of ad filters determines the quality of the whole AdGuard work.
But there is a reverse side. Over the years, there have been more and more advertising filters. And the more ad filters appear, the more memory AdGuard consumes and the slower the web pages are rendered.
At the same time, some of the filters begin to expire, gradually becoming a dead weight that does not have any use and only consumes memory and slows down the program.
We want to solve the problem of outdated filtering rules once and for all. But we need your help to do so. By gathering statistics on used filtering rules, we detect and remove the rules that are no longer used. As a result, it will help all those who use AdGuard.
If your computer is powerful enough, it won’t really affect you. But the difference will be very noticeable for users of low-power netbooks or tablets.
If you enable the «Send statistics for ad filters usage» option, the following information is sent periodically:
The collected statistics will be sent periodically to our server for analysis and filter optimization.
It's important to notice that all the statistics we get are averaged and impersonalized. We don't use these statistics for any other goal other than optimizing the filters, and we do not sell this data to any third parties. You can read about our Privacy Policy here.
For the vast majority of users, the change in the speed of their computer will not be really noticeable. But if you use a netbook or a tablet, you may notice a slight slowdown.
Periodically, we will send the gathered statistics to the server. The size of the data being sent is not very large and is comparable to the size of an average web page.